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In connection with the death in the Krasnodar pre-trial detention center of a doctor convicted in the “Sonia Kulivets case,” no criminal case will be initiated.
The investigative department for Krasnodar of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Krasnodar Territory refused to initiate a criminal case into the death of convicted doctor Vladimir Pelipenko.
“Today a decision was made to refuse to initiate a criminal case due to the absence of a crime. At the same time, it was refused to initiate a case under Article 105 (murder) and under Article 110 (incitement to suicide),” the head of the investigative department for Krasnodar of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation told reporters Alexander Valiev.
Let us recall that in September, an anesthesiologist and resuscitator at the Children's Infectious Diseases Hospital in Krasnodar was sentenced to 11 months in a penal colony. A week ago, on November 20, Pelipenko was found on his bed in a pre-trial detention center “with bodily injuries in the form of cut wounds in the neck and elbow.”
The investigator noted that although Pelipenko did not talk about suicide, he was treated for depression for several months, and his cellmates in the pre-trial detention center said that the doctor was worried about the tragedy with Sonya Kulivets and understood that he would not be able to return to medicine.
Valiev clarified that Pelipenko was taken into custody on November 5 and placed in cell +154 of the pre-trial detention center +1 of Krasnodar, where with him there were those convicted of crimes of medium gravity - for theft, fraud, drug trafficking. All of them, including Pelipenko, were sentenced to serve their sentences in a penal colony.
“Pelipenko behaved a little inadequately, but did not express any intentions to commit suicide. According to his cellmates, no threats or force were used against him,” Valiev said.
On November 7, Pelipenko, who fell ill with pneumonia, was transferred to the hospital ward of the pre-trial detention center. He was in the hospital cell with five convicts. “These persons were convicted under articles that are classified as crimes of medium gravity. Among them there were no notorious criminals capable of taking life,” Valiev said.
According to him, according to the testimony of Pelipenko’s cellmates, the doctor was very worried that the girl Sonya Kulivets had lost her arm. He said that he would never be able to work as a doctor again, and this was his life’s work.
On the night of November 20 at about 24:00, he ran to the window and began calling his relatives, Valiev said. At the same time, cellmates say that Pelipenko’s behavior at that moment was no longer adequate. At about 01:00, one of the prisoners heard Pelipenko wheezing, approached him and saw that he was lying in blood. A guard was called, then a paramedic from the pre-trial detention center.
“The paramedic says that she tried to sew up Pelipenko’s wounds, but he waved his arms and prevented her from doing so. When the ambulance arrived, the doctors pronounced him dead,” Valiev said.
During the inspection of the scene of the incident, a blade from a disposable razor. A forensic medical examination found ten cut wounds on Pelipenko’s body in the left neck area - all these wounds were superficial. Another wound was in the elbow area, near a vein. There are also scratches on the fingers, indicating that he held the blade with his right hand.
Valiev also said that the audit materials contain information that Pelipenko was in a psychiatric hospital in Krasnodar from 02/12/2008 to 07/18/2008, that is, exactly at the time when the trial in the Kulivets case was taking place. In the hospital he was treated for depression.
Regarding the fact that Pelipenko’s final sentence was passed on September 17, and he was placed in custody only on November 9, the head of the department said the following: “There is a certain procedure for carrying out the sentence. Pelipenko was under recognizance not to leave the place during the trial, so after the "It was necessary to issue a decision to place him in custody, and this took time."
Let us recall that in addition to Pelipenko, Elena Senicheva, a nurse from the same hospital, was convicted in the case of an infant girl, Sonya Kulivets, whose arm was amputated as a result of a medical error.
They were both charged under Part 2 of Article 118 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “inflicting grievous harm to health through negligence, committed as a result of improper performance by a person of his professional duties.”
On November 19, 2007, the doctors were sentenced to a year of imprisonment in a colony settlement each. However, after an appeal, the court reduced each of the doctors' sentences by one month.
Two-month-old Sonya Kulivets lost her arm as a result of an incorrectly inserted catheter: the girl developed thrombosis of the artery of her right forearm, which led to amputation.
An expert commission from Moscow came to the conclusion that the child became disabled due to a doctor’s mistake.
Doctor Vladimir Pelipenko, who mistakenly amputated the arm of a two-month-old child, was found dead in a cell in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Krasnodar. According to the official version, an anesthesiologist-resuscitator at a children's infectious diseases hospital, found guilty of causing grievous harm to the health of the newborn Sofia Kulivets and sentenced to 11 months in a penal colony, committed suicide on the night of November 20. Gazeta.Ru reported this, refusing to comment on what happened.
The investigative department is currently conducting an investigation into the death of Pelipenko. “The investigation will clarify whether there is a crime in this and will soon decide whether to initiate a criminal case,” the doctor’s lawyer Vladimir Chernobay told Gazeta.Ru.
According to him, prison staff found Pelipenko in serious condition, lying in a pool of blood, on Thursday night. While civilian doctors were on their way to the scene, prison doctors tried to provide first aid to the wounded man. But their efforts were ineffective: the ambulance officers could only record Pelipenko’s death. As Chernobay said, the doctor found “deep cuts to the vessels of the neck on the side and on the elbow joint.” “Apparently he lost too much blood,” the lawyer added.
Chernobay himself does not believe that Pelipenko committed suicide. The convict was allegedly threatened.
The lawyer suggests that his client became a victim of unknown killers. According to Chernobay, ten days ago the doctor told his wife that in the event of any misfortune with him, his relatives should begin a “full investigation.” “What else can one assume after such words?” says Chernobay. The autopsy, he said, “was done suspiciously quickly.” According to the law, it was supposed to take place only tomorrow, but by Thursday evening it was already completely finished. However, the results of the procedure have not yet been reported.
However, it is no longer possible to challenge them: Pelipenko’s funeral should take place tomorrow.
“Why was such a laugh necessary,” Chernobai wonders.
It also remains unclear to the relatives and the lawyer why, despite the approved sentence, Pelipenko has not yet been transferred to the colony. For some reason he was still in jail. On August 11, 2008, the defense filed a cassation appeal against the conviction of the Prikubansky District Court with the Krasnodar Regional Court with a request to drop all charges against Pelipenko. According to the lawyer, another person convicted in the case of Sonya Kulivets, nurse Elena Senicheva, who assisted the doctor, also filed a complaint there.
Pelipenko and Senicheva were initially sentenced to a year in prison. But on July 31, 2008 Prikubansky district court Krasnodar commuted the sentence against both defendants in the case. The nurse's defenders argued that she has a dependent 12-year-old child, and she herself is four months pregnant. Senicheva's sentence was reduced to 10 months, and Pelipenko was given 11 months, to be served in a penal colony. However, the judge could not explain to either the defendant’s lawyers or his wife why the doctor continued to be in the isolation ward after the verdict was announced.
According to Chernobay, the judge argued that “the authorities do not want to carry out the sentence.” “But this is just some kind of nonsense,” the human rights activist is indignant.
Chernobay is afraid that the second defendant in this case “will face the same fate” as Pelipenko. The start of serving her sentence has been delayed for the pregnant Senicheva, but her lawyer doubts that she will give birth in freedom. “Someone wants to tie up the loose ends of this matter,” Chernobay concluded.
Let us recall that on December 30, 2006, doctors delivered a newborn Kulivets from the Abinsk district clinic to the regional children's infectious diseases hospital in Krasnodar with a diagnosis of whooping cough. A catheter was installed to administer the medicine to the child. But soon a blood clot formed in the baby’s brachial artery. Doctors tried to save his sore arm, but to no avail. In early January 2007, it had to be amputated. The child was two months old. The examination found that the cause of the arm amputation was an incorrect catheterization procedure performed by a nurse under the guidance of an anesthesiologist-resuscitator. The doctors were found guilty under Part 2 of Article 118 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (causing grievous harm to health through negligence, committed as a result of improper performance by a person of his professional duties).
An examination is now taking place in Moscow - at the Russian Children's Clinical Hospital. At the beginning of next week, doctors from the Russian Children's Clinical Hospital will prescribe treatment for the girl. But, according to experts, it will be possible to begin prosthetics no earlier than in a year and a half.
Doctors refuse to say anything about Sonya until a full examination has been carried out. On Wednesday, Sonechka already had an ultrasound and ECG, but all the tests will take at least a week. Despite the fact that the intervals between procedures are no more than two hours, Sonya endures everything steadfastly. Like any infant, he laughs, coos and smiles at his parents.
The head doctor explained to us that we first need to do an examination to see what condition the blood vessels are in. And then the doctors will draw up a rehabilitation program for Sonya: they will prescribe a massage to develop muscles, prescribe all the procedures and decide on prosthetics. To make the first dummies, the child must be at least two years old. But our difficulty is that Sonya has no arm at all, not even a bone,” he says.
Now Sonya feels fine. Together with her mother and father, she lives in a separate box in the microsurgery department. The parents tried, as far as possible, to bring the official environment closer to home - Sonechka lies on a bright educational rug, her favorite toys are around her, and even in the hospital, mother Natasha tries to dress her daughter in smart suits. In the cramped box, in addition to the crib, there are two adults - for Natalya and Victor. Sonya's parents refused the hotel room offered by the Krasnodar administration so as not to leave their child for a minute.
I expected that the flight to Moscow would be more difficult,” says Viktor Kulivets. - Sonya is a capricious girl, I can’t take her anywhere in the car, she starts screaming. But she liked it on the plane, she slept and played.
The fact that the amputation of the arm was a medical error was admitted by the Minister of Health and social development Mikhail Zurabov. The prosecutor's office opened a criminal case under Article 118 of the Criminal Code "Infliction of grievous bodily harm through negligence." In court, Sonya will be defended by lawyer Anatoly Kucherena.
Sonya’s father and everyone who is now treating the girl are sure that the Krasnodar doctors are entirely to blame for what happened to the child.
Since the New Year, my worldview has completely changed. I didn’t quarrel with anyone, I didn’t raise my voice at anyone,” says Viktor Kulivets. - I will do everything that is needed for my child myself. I am grateful that they are helping us, that we were called to the Russian Children's Clinical Hospital, because we were just about to look for where we could undergo such an examination. I go to orthopedic clinics to find out what can be done.
Victor had to leave his job - he was installing gas equipment and setting up diesel engines. Now the family lives on their own savings. The money that is being transferred for Sonya has not yet been touched: it will only be spent on treatment. Eldest daughter Victor and Natalya stayed with their grandmother. Lately she has been asking her parents for one thing: “Make a pen for your sister.”
Of course, I would like the child to have a donor hand transplanted, as the Spanish doctors suggested to us, but I don’t want to experiment on my daughter. Until now, such operations have not been performed on children. For us to decide on this, the operation must be put on stream.
Natalya and Victor are very grateful to everyone who helps their family, but nevertheless they rely only on themselves. One of their most terrible memories is how Krasnodar doctors suggested that they abandon their daughter and leave her to die in the hospital.
Natasha worked for ten years rehabilitation center, took care of abandoned children. We gave them gifts, we know well how hard it is for them,” says Victor. “So when after everything we heard: “Give up the child,” we couldn’t understand it. No matter what the child is, he is still ours!
Just a few months ago, four-year-old Sonya did not like to run; she walked with difficulty, lost her balance, cried, and clung to her elders. Now a stranger is unlikely to distinguish a cheerful girl from her peers. And until recently, everyone turned around after Sonya - to feel sorry or amazed: so small, and already without an arm...
Several years ago, the story of little Sonya Kulivets from the Abinsk region spread throughout the world. At the end of December 2006, a two-month-old girl diagnosed with whooping cough was taken to the regional children's infectious diseases hospital. As a result of a medical error, the girl developed acute thrombosis - the baby had to amputate her right arm up to the shoulder.
Sonya's story had a wide resonance - the public was indignant and demanded that the perpetrators be punished. Good people collected money for the girl’s treatment, Russian medical luminaries advised the Kulivets family.
Several years have passed. They remembered Sonya less and less - life around us is too eventful.”
In September 2007, the Prikubansky District Court found an anesthesiologist guilty of what happened to the girl. Vladimir Pelipenko and a nurse Elena Senicheva, who incorrectly installed the catheter in Sonya’s arm.
Two months later, Vladimir Pelipenko committed suicide in the hospital of the Krasnodar pre-trial detention center...
Several years have passed. They remembered Sonya less and less - life around us was too eventful.
Avoiding the attention of the press and public, Victor and Natalya Kulivets raised Sonya. The girl grew up, learned to smile, speak, and walk. Sonya managed to move around with difficulty - due to the lack right hand The girl had poor balance and often fell. The parents made a decision - Sonya needs surgery. German doctors were involved in the prosthetics of Sonya’s hand. At the beginning of May this year, the girl returned home with her parents.
...We arrived at a small, neat house in the village of Kholmskaya. We saw a funny doll forgotten in the yard on a children's table, a bright swing swinging by the wind, a two-wheeled bicycle left by the porch.
Sonya Kulivets after surgery
Ivan Zhuravlev / Yugopolis
The blonde, smiling girl Sonya was waiting for the guests, surrounded by her favorite toys and a soft Teddy Bear - now she can play with them with both hands.
We consulted large quantity doctors,” says Sonya’s dad, Viktor Kulivets. - My daughter lost her shoulder joint as a result of arm amputation. To install a prosthesis in Russia, it was necessary Plastic surgery, surgical intervention, but abroad there is a completely different, more modern technology.
Sonya's prosthesis is made of silicone and is movable in the elbow joint. The girl can even bend her fingers, although this can only be done with the help of her left hand or her parents.”
Sonya's prosthesis is made of silicone and is movable in the elbow joint. The girl can even bend her fingers, although this can only be done with the help of her left hand or her parents.
It’s now easier for Sonya to draw, ride a bike, and ride a swing,” continues Viktor Kulivets. - For example, she can use her prosthesis to hold a piece of paper on which she draws, or a notebook in which she learns to write. Previously, we had to place a glass or some object on the paper so that the sheet would not move, but with the fingers of the prosthesis she can fix any object.
The prosthesis is practically no different from a healthy hand; its color matches Sonya’s skin tone.
The girl will need to change her prosthesis in a year. Parents have already begun to search for a suitable clinic. They are advised to take the girl to Spain, where world-famous doctors practice modern technologies prosthetics"
The girl will need to change her prosthesis in a year. Parents have already begun to search for a suitable clinic. They are advised to take the girl to Spain, where world-famous doctors practice modern prosthetic technologies.
Sonya's parents paid 9 thousand euros for the operation in Germany. They are infinitely grateful to all the people who helped raise the necessary amount.
While we were visiting Sonya, the smile did not disappear from the girl’s face. She participated in the conversation, talking about her dolls and childhood fun.
If you want to help four-year-old Sonya, whose parents are already collecting money for her next operation, you can transfer funds to the account we publish:
BIC 046015602 Crimean OSB 1850 South-Western Bank of the SB of the Russian Federation
Rostov-on-Don OSB 1850/054
Kholmsky village
C/S 30101810600000000602
Account number 30301810052000603028
TIN 7707083893
Account 42307810530280616394
Kulivets Viktor Ivanovich
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« Remember the story about Sonechka Kulivets? The one in which the killer doctors “torn the artery with a steel needle.” The one in which the girl’s father, in front of television cameras, demanded fair punishment for the doctors. The one in which an innocent pediatric resuscitator was stabbed to death in a pre-trial detention center.
Friends from this area (Kholmskaya station, Abinsky district) told me that the girl Sonya had her second arm amputated (for the same reason of a “non-existent” hereditary disease), that her truth-telling father left the family, that the only one left was a “dysfunctional” drinker. mother sent a disabled girl to an orphanage...
You don’t have to Google it: you won’t find any news about Sonechka on the Internet. The last thing that flashed in the news was information about what a good prosthesis the girl was given in Germany. Then there is silence..."
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