The Borzilo family has been unable to obtain the results of the examination from investigators for three years.

The Borzilo couple from the Rostov region have submitted at least ten requests for DNA testing results in the adoption secret disclosure case, but have so far failed to obtain them. The couple believes the testing is being deliberately delayed.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," Lyudmila Borzilo, a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation from the Rostov region, complained that security forces had unfoundedly opened a criminal case against her, and that officials were attempting to place her children in an orphanage because of her civic activism. In March, the activist was placed under house arrest and then forcibly committed to a psychiatric clinic in Rostov-on-Don. During a court hearing on her complaint, Borzilo suffered a miscarriage. On April 15, the court softened her pretrial detention. As a result, child protection authorities withdrew the lawsuit to restrict her parental rights. At the request of an investigator, the court ordered to remand activist Lyudmila Borzilo from the Rostov region to a psychiatric clinic. She is currently being held at a private clinic and is wanted.

Sergey and Tatyana Borzilo stated that for nearly nine years, investigators have been unable to explain what happened to their child, born in 2016 in the Oryol District maternity hospital. Instead of answers, the family sees only delays in the examinations and pressure on the child's mother, Lyudmila Borzilo, who is being forcibly committed to a psychiatric hospital for her long-standing demands that investigators provide clear answers to questions about her child's fate after birth.

On September 18, Sergey Borzilo, Lyudmila's husband and the father of the child, who, according to doctors, died during childbirth in 2016, contacted the Oryol District Prosecutor's Office. He demanded that the family be provided with the promised report from the appointed commission, the results of which have been delayed for three years now.

According to Sergei Borzilo, the main question remains unanswered: was their child alive at birth and, if so, where did he disappear to immediately after birth. "We've been waiting for this report since 2022. We've been promised a result, but it's still not there. We believe the delays are deliberate, to avoid acknowledging the violations committed. Nine years after the tragedy, the investigation cannot answer the question: did our son die or was he kidnapped," he told the Caucasian Knot.

The family's eldest child, 22-year-old Tatyana Borzilo, stated that their family, friends, and relatives do not believe in the death of her brother, born in 2016. "The midwife told my mother immediately after the birth that the baby was stillborn, but she came to the hospital with contractions and felt fetal movement. After she gave birth, the midwife immediately took the baby away, without even showing it to the mother, and told her to move to another room. Why? On what grounds? This is the main question that no one answers. We never received any documentation about the stillbirth; a few days later, they simply gave us a box and told us to bury it. "The parents were in shock; they didn't even realize what they'd buried," she said.

Lawyer Alexander Krasnov sees numerous contradictions in the case and believes that this is precisely why the investigation is not interested in seeing it through to the end.

"There were numerous violations from the very beginning. The midwife violated the basic rule—a child must be placed next to its mother, whether it's alive or dead, and the cause of death must be explained if she believes it to be dead. This was not done. There are many conflicting testimonies in the case. Sometimes the child died after birth, sometimes in the womb. If in the womb, then experts must determine exactly when and from what. The first exhumation revealed bones that were smaller than the size of the child as determined by ultrasound a month before birth—meaning it could have been a different child. It was sent for exhumation because it's unrealistic "So that the born child would be smaller than the unborn one. An ultrasound is a document. The investigation found nothing to support the stillbirth theory that the investigators insist on. The DNA testing conducted did not convince the parents. Apparently, it did not convince some prosecutors and investigators either, since they ordered repeat tests, the results of which the parents cannot obtain," the lawyer says.

"Our family went to picket three times at the Investigative Committee building in Moscow, demanding justice. My mother stood for hours with a sign: 'Help bring back my son, Seryozhenka.' But instead of help and answers, we see the examination being delayed, and at the same time, attempts to lock my mother up in a psychiatric hospital. Allegedly, she is a danger to society. I would clarify that not to society, but to those who cover up the crimes of the investigation, the court, and the doctors... Everything that is happening looks like pressure on the family and a way to get rid of an inconvenient complainant," she believes. The Borzilo couple's eldest daughter, Tatyana.

Sergey Borzilo notes that at the end of February 2025, the Zimovnikovsky Interdistrict Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation sent them a Resolution (a copy is in the possession of the "Caucasian Knot"), in which it refused to satisfy his wife's latest complaint to provide the results of a repeat examination scheduled for 2022.

The Resolution states that a repeat forensic commission examination was scheduled back in November 2022, but its results are still not ready. This is how the investigation explains its inability to provide the family with a definitive answer.

According to Sergei Borzilo, this wording is merely a way to "freeze" the case. "The examination was scheduled three years ago, and they're telling us to wait. This can't be an accident; it's a deliberate delay," he believes.

The family is certain that the intention behind delaying the investigation is obvious.

"Nine years have passed, but investigators haven't been able to prove to us that the child is dead. Hospital procedures for handling children's corpses are violated. There are no examination results. They won't answer the father and mother's questions, yet they want to commit the mother of a child who is quite likely alive to a psychiatric hospital. "We consider this unfair and will fight," said Sergei Borzilo. According to Tatyana, despite the pressure, her mother, Lyudmila Borzilo, is preparing to become a mother for the eighth time and give their close-knit family another member: "I'm very happy that I'll have a sister. Right now, I only have brothers. I'm 22 years older than her, but that only makes me happier. We're fighting not only for our brother, but also for our mother to be able to live a normal life and raise her children. She's deprived of a voice and the right to communicate with the media, so only we can speak," emphasized Tatyana, the Borzilo couple's daughter. She clarified that they filed at least ten petitions demanding the results of the promised examination in 2025. And not one answer has been given.

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