Suspects confess to kidnapping a child in Morozovsk

48-year-old spouses from the Volgograd Region have confessed that they took a boy away from his grandmother in the Rostov Region. They have explained their act by the desire to bring up the child they liked, report the investigators.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on May 7, in the Rostov Region, a man and a woman kidnapped a three-year-old child and fled in a car with the state registration numbers of the Volgograd Region. On May 8, the boy was found in the Volgograd Region.

The 48-year-old spouses, residents of the Volgograd Region, were brought to the Rostov Region and interrogated as persons suspected of the kidnapping. This has been reported by the message posted today on the website of the Investigating Department for the Rostov Region of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

According to Galina Gagalayeva, Senior PR Assistant to the chief of the ICRF's Department for the Rostov Region, the suspects have confessed that they decided to take the boy and bring him up, since they liked him. That is why they used a can to spray gas in the face of the child's grandmother.

"The child... has been handed over to his parents. At present, own children of the spouses under suspicion have been brought to a rehabilitation centre... The consideration of the question concerning the pre-trial restriction measure against the suspects in the form of detention in custody is underway," reports Galina Gagalayeva as quoted by the "161.ru".

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.