In the Tavush Marz Investigation Department of the RA Investigative Committee, the case of causing severe physical pain and severe mental suffering to little children living with them, as well as causing serious body harm, was completed by SH and his daughter MH, a resident of Khashtarak community. as a result, the preliminary investigation of the criminal proceedings in the case of causing the death of one of them by negligence.
On August 18, 2020 the investigation of the criminal case initiated in the Tavush Regional Investigation Department of the RA Investigative Committee confirmed that on August 16, 2020 at around 2:00 p.m., in the house he owns in the Khashtarak community of Tavush region, as his grandson bothered him, S.H. hit his 6-year-old grandson on the face with his hand, as a result of which he fell on the floor, hit his head on the couch, getting life-threatening serious body injuries. On August 25, 2020, the 6-year-old child died of body injuries in the “Holy Astvamayr” medical center.
Moreover, on the same day, in the evening, in the garden of their private house, because of throwing a tire at him, the man hit the other grandson, a 4-year-old child at the time of the incident, with a stick several times on different parts of his body, then lifted him up and threw him to the floor, injuring the latter’s health, causing moderate damage.
It was also found out that the man and his daughter, who is the mother of 4 children, and the aunt of two, during their joint residence in their private house, until August 16, 2020, repeatedly, on different domestic occasions, they deliberately hit 6 minors with hands, feet, sticks and other objects on different parts of their bodies, causing moderate and severe physical injuries, as well as severe mental suffering.
At the initial stage, detention was chosen as a preventive measure against them, which was later replaced by a ban on absence.
In January, the body implementing the proceedings made a decision to apply a special protective measure to 5 minor children, “restriction of approaching the protected person or communicating with them”, and one copy of the decision was sent to the director of the Ijevan branch of the “SOS Children’s Villages.”
The preliminary investigation has been completed and the materials of the criminal proceedings, with the indictment, have been sent to the supervising prosecutor.
Note: Everyone charged with a criminal offence shall be presumed innocent until proven guilty in a manner prescribed by the Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Armenia and found guilty by a court decision that has entered into legal force.
