No charges for Texas parents over dead Russian boy

Inquirer
Tuesday 19th March, 2013

WASHINGTON – The US adoptive parents of a Russian boy will not be criminally charged over his death, a Texas official said Monday, after the three-year-old’s demise was deemed accidental. Toddler Max Shatto’s body was heavily bruised when he died at a hospital near the west Texas town of Gardendale in January. Claims by Russian officials that the boy, born Maxim Kuzmin, was tortured and murdered by his adoptive mother whipped up a storm of controversy less than two months after Russia banned US adoptions. But on Monday, Bobby Bland, the district attorney for Ector County, …

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