In St. Petersburg, a man beat up schoolchildren who were trying to rescue a friend who was locked at home.

In the Nevsky district, a man beat up two eighth-graders who were trying to rescue a friend locked in an apartment. This was announced on May 31 by a source of Izvestia.

According to the source, the 13-year-old girl was locked at home by her mother so that she would not go for a walk. The seventh-grader turned to her friends for help.

"They tried to open the apartment door to let me out...> [a friend], as a result of which the door was damaged. At that moment, my stepfather returned home," the source said.

A 37-year-old man started beating schoolchildren. The teenagers needed medical attention, the boys had a concussion and multiple head contusions, one of them is in a moderate condition. The girl has multiple wounds to her arms and legs, and she is in serious condition.

The man was detained.

On March 2, passers-by in Perm rescued a boy who was beaten by his stepfather. Footage from the scene shows that the child ran out of his apartment in tears without outerwear. He told eyewitnesses that the man was drunk and beat him and his mother. The boy's parent caught up with him when he tried to hide in the entrance. Passers-by rescued the child, and a criminal case was opened into the incident.