Court refuses to limit Nina Tseretilova’s parental rights despite protests of her children

Relatives of Nina Tseretilova, a native of Dagestan, whose children have been living in a shelter for a year after refusing to live together with their mother, have expressed their indignation by a decision of the court which refused to limit the Nina Tseretilova’s parental rights. According to the relatives, the woman herself rejected an agreement that would have allowed her to retain the parental rights and for her children to live with their grandparents in Dagestan.

The “Caucasian Knot” has reported that in March 2021, the court granted a request of the native of Dagestan for custody of her children, and on July 16, 2021, the court limited the parental rights of the children’s father, from whom the mother was divorced. In October of the same year, the children were handed over to their mother. In December 2022, the children threatened to jump out of a window from the fourth floor, saying they had been humiliated and beaten. After refusing to live together with their mother, the children were placed in a rehabilitation centre, and their father’s relatives demanded custody of them.

The Central District Court of Kaliningrad refused to grant the claim of the prosecutor’s office to limit the Nina Tseretilova’s parental rights, filed about a year ago, when the children expressed their unwillingness to stay with their mother.

Children’s father Magomed Tseretilov was put on the wanted list under the article “Deliberate destruction or damage to other people’s property” because he broke a mobile phone of Nina Tseretilova.

His father Akhmed Tseretilov, a children’s grandfather, also expresses his indignation about the court’s decision. “The children were placed in an orphanage. They have been saying for a whole year that they want to go to Dagestan to live together with their grandparents, but no one listens to them ... Nina was also punished under an administrative article for beating her daughter, but the court did not pay attention to that fact,” said the children’s grandfather.

A court in Makhachkala reported that Nina Tseretilova beat her 11-year-old daughter with a belt when the girl “returned late after a walk with her father” and “refused to go home to her mother.” Nina Tseretilova admitted her guilt and asked “not to be severely punished.”

According to Akhmed Tseretilov’s story, Nina Tseretilova was offered a draft mediation agreement, according to which she, while remaining the legal representative of her children, would issue a power of attorney to their grandparents so that the children could live with them. At the same time, Nina Tseretilova would have retained her parental rights in full, but she refused to enter into such an agreement.

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