The prosecutor's office requested 9,5 and 9 years for doctors Belaya and Sushkevich

The prosecutor asks to find Elena Belaya, acting chief physician of Kaliningrad Maternity Hospital No. 4, and Elina Sushkevich, a neonatologist, guilty in the case of the infant's death and to sentence them to 9.5 and 9 years in prison, respectively. This was reported on August 6 by a correspondent of Izvestia from the Moscow Regional Court.

In addition, the state prosecution demands that the defendants be banned from practicing medicine for three years.

The court also attached to the case file a civil claim by the victim Zarimkhon Akhmedova for compensation for moral damage in the amount of 2 million rubles — 1 million for each defendant.

"I couldn't get pregnant for a long time and lost the baby because of you," she said via video link.

On July 30 of this year, a panel of jurors found Belaya and Sushkevich guilty in the case of the death of a baby.

Maternity ward: Kaliningrad doctors were again found guilty of murdering a child

After the verdict of the jury, Elina Sushkevich and Elena Belaya will receive a new verdict, it may be tougher than the previous one.

In November 2018, a woman was admitted to maternity hospital No. 4 in Kaliningrad, who gave birth to a boy weighing about 700 g at an extremely early stage of pregnancy. The Investigative Committee (IC) of the Russian Federation has established that Belaya and Sushkevich decided to kill the child in order not to spoil the statistics.

It was later reported that an expensive drug was needed to maintain the baby's vital functions, and Belaya allegedly decided not to waste the resources of the maternity hospital. The investigation believed that she had instructed the baby to be given a dose of magnesium sulfate, and to write in the birth history that the child was stillborn. The doctors did not admit their guilt.

In December 2020, the Kaliningrad Regional Court acquitted the doctors. At the same time, the UK stated that their guilt had been proven. The prosecutor's office appealed the decision, and in May 2021, the court overturned the acquittal of Belaya and Sushkevich.

Then, in September 2022, the Moscow Regional Court sentenced Belaya and Sushkevich to 9.5 and 9 years in prison, respectively. They were also banned from practicing medicine for a period of three years. In December 2023, the Supreme Court dismissed the cassation appeals against the doctors' verdict. Later, on October 2, 2024, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation sent the case for reconsideration, leaving the doctors in custody.

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