09:00, 14 November 2009

In Adygea, school mistress convicted for pupil's death

In the city of Maikop, the capital of Adygea, the court found Asiet Sheudzhen, head mistress of the special closed-type vocational school, indirectly guilty of death of one of her pupils, aged 17. In the course of the works at the construction site, where she sent the pupils, a wall fell down on the teenager.

The school mistress was accused under the death case of Dmitri Gruzdev, 17, in spring 2007. It was established by investigation that in March 2007 Ms Sheudzhen removed a group of 11 pupils from their lessons and sent them outside the school for dismantling some old building into bricks. Without due supervision over the work, the pupils started crushing a brick wall of the building having no necessary appliances. As a result, a wall fragment fell over Gruzdev; and the boy died from the received wounds in situ.

The court sentenced Sheudzhen to 18 months of conditional imprisonment, having found her guilty under the article of "negligence", as reported by the "Adygea" Radio Station. The "Yuga.Ru" adds that the verdict has come into legal force.