The FINANCIAL – According to RIA Novosti, a court in the Rostov Region, in southern Russia, has found a couple guilty of cruelty after they chained their disabled adopted son to a radiator, the region's prosecutors said on November 19.
The couple failed to give their son, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia, proper medical treatment chaining him to a radiator at night so that he could not run away.
The woman received a year's community service, while her husband was sentenced to 180 hours of compulsory labor.
Prosecutors requested that a trial be held, in order to terminate the couple's parental rights.
