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Experts Should Help Investigate Wave in Child Suicides in Russia - Prosecutors
Interfax - 2.16.12 - JRL 2012-30

TOMSK. Feb 16 (Interfax) - Russia's First Deputy Prosecutor General Alexander Buksman said experts should be asked to help prosecutors investigate child and teenage suicides. A host of reasons, including psychological, may drive a child to commit suicide. We are studying this uneasy problem and we will have to draw experts in dealing with this serious and painful theme," Buksman told reporters in Tomsk.

The incidence of child suicide increased sharply in Russia at the start of February.

A 7th grader left school earlier than usual in early February and his parents later found him hanged. A criminal case was started on counts of incitement to suicide.

On February 7, 14-year-old schoolgirls jumped to their deaths from the roof of an apartment building in the town of Lobnya near Moscow. The girls reportedly committed suicide fearing a reprimand for not attending classes for two weeks. A probe was launched on several counts, including incitement to suicide.

On the next day, a 15-year-old boy jumped from a window of an apartment building in southern Moscow. The boy committed suicide after an argument with his father who had been told at school that his son was suspected of stealing mobile phones, a source in law enforcement services told Interfax.

On February 10, an 11-year-old girl found her brother hanged in the corridor of their apartment. The boy was not heard previously speaking about a suicide, the parents claimed. Nor did they know anything about his conflicts with schoolmates.

A 15-year-old schoolgirl threw herself from the 24th floor of an apartment building in southeastern Moscow on February 11.

A 16-year-old girl attempted to commit suicide in the Kemerovo region on February 12. She jumped from a window on the 8th floor of an apartment building, reportedly after an argument with her acquaintances. She sustained serious injuries but survived.

An 11th grader committed suicide in the Zyryansk district of Tomsk region on February 14. A resident of the village of Ilovka found his 18-year-old son hanged in a wooden shed. There was a message in the boy's cell phone saying that he had problems understanding the algebra, that the teacher would shout at him and that he could not tolerate all this any more.

There are 30-31 suicides per 100,000 citizens in Russia each year, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

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TOMSK. Feb 16 (Interfax) - Russia's First Deputy Prosecutor General Alexander Buksman said experts should be asked to help prosecutors investigate child and teenage suicides.

A host of reasons, including psychological, may drive a child to commit suicide. We are studying this uneasy problem and we will have to draw experts in dealing with this serious and painful theme," Buksman told reporters in Tomsk.

The incidence of child suicide increased sharply in Russia at the start of February.

A 7th grader left school earlier than usual in early February and his parents later found him hanged. A criminal case was started on counts of incitement to suicide.

On February 7, 14-year-old schoolgirls jumped to their deaths from the roof of an apartment building in the town of Lobnya near Moscow. The girls reportedly committed suicide fearing a reprimand for not attending classes for two weeks. A probe was launched on several counts, including incitement to suicide.

On the next day, a 15-year-old boy jumped from a window of an apartment building in southern Moscow. The boy committed suicide after an argument with his father who had been told at school that his son was suspected of stealing mobile phones, a source in law enforcement services told Interfax.

On February 10, an 11-year-old girl found her brother hanged in the corridor of their apartment. The boy was not heard previously speaking about a suicide, the parents claimed. Nor did they know anything about his conflicts with schoolmates.

A 15-year-old schoolgirl threw herself from the 24th floor of an apartment building in southeastern Moscow on February 11.

A 16-year-old girl attempted to commit suicide in the Kemerovo region on February 12. She jumped from a window on the 8th floor of an apartment building, reportedly after an argument with her acquaintances. She sustained serious injuries but survived.

An 11th grader committed suicide in the Zyryansk district of Tomsk region on February 14. A resident of the village of Ilovka found his 18-year-old son hanged in a wooden shed. There was a message in the boy's cell phone saying that he had problems understanding the algebra, that the teacher would shout at him and that he could not tolerate all this any more.

There are 30-31 suicides per 100,000 citizens in Russia each year, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).