Adopted Russian Boys Death in U.S. Accidental

The Moscow Times
Friday 1st March, 2013

Max Shatto, the Russian toddler whose death sparked allegations of murder and calls for improved oversight of Russian children adopted by families, died of an accidental trauma, authorities in the U.S. state of Texas announced early Saturday morning. “[The autopsy] returned a finding that the cause of death of this child was a laceration to the small bowel messentery artery due to blunt trauma in the abdomen. Based on all medical reasonable probability, the manner of death is accidental,” the Ector County Sheriff’s office said in an e-mailed statement. Three pathologists at the Tarrent Count…

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