In Stavropol Territory, chief physician of hospital where child was raped is accused of negligence

As reported by the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), the chief physician of the hospital in the city of Budyonnovsk, Stavropol Territory, where a 9-year-old girl was raped, is accused of a failure to ensure the proper guarding of his hospital, which allowed the criminal to get into it.

Under the order of Alexander Bastrykin, chairman of the ICRF, a criminal case was initiated against the Budyonnovsk hospital chief physician Sergey Usov under Article 293 of the Criminal Code (negligence).

"Within the opened criminal case, investigators will also have to establish the role of other individuals, whose actions or inaction had caused commission of such a brutal crime against a child," the RIA "Novosti" quotes a source from the ICRF.

The suspect of raping the child was detained. He turned out to be a 23-year-old resident of Budyonnovsk, already convicted before for the same crime and released under CER (conditional early relief) "for good behaviour" in August 2010.

As reported by a source in law enforcement bodies of the Stavropol Territory, the suspect gives contradictory evidences.

"Initially the suspect, who is kept at the IVS (remand prison) confessed of the crime; then, he refused from his evidences," said the source.

He added that the suspect will undergo a psychiatric examination, the "Interfax" reports.