An inhabitant of the Ternopil oblast received a sentence of 7.5 years of incarceration for purposefully injuring her son’s eye in order to obtain state assistance. The young boy has blindness in a single eye and currently resides under the guardianship of a different family.
A female individual from the Ternopil region was condemned to 7.5 years of imprisonment for deliberately blinding her 3-year-old son in one eye with the purpose of obtaining welfare payments, as declared by the Prosecutor General’s Office, UNN informs.
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The appalling event transpired in a local medical center in November of 2019. The mother insisted on the boy’s alleged infectious malady, which physicians were unable to substantiate.
“The accused was jobless and depended on state aid. She pressed the medical staff to “certify” the child’s sickness. When alone with her son, she inflicted deliberate trauma upon his eye using a medical implement. This serious injury resulted in the three-year-old boy losing sight in one eye,” stated the prosecutor’s office.
As stated, the child is presently being cared for by an alternative family.
“Prosecutors established in courts of all levels the culpability of an individual from the Ternopil region in committing deliberate, severe bodily harm to her underage son. The court imposed a sentence of 7 years and 6 months of imprisonment for an act perpetrated with extraordinary cruelty, culminating in the child’s visual impairment and permanent disability,” the report clarifies.
Furthermore, besides the mandated period of detention, the court has reportedly ordered the defendant to reimburse funds for treatment and provide 600,000 hryvnias to the child for emotional distress.
According to Deputy Prosecutor General Viktor Logachov:
It is a profound sorrow for a child who suffered a health detriment due to the intentional actions of the closest person – his own parent. The boy must confront the aftermath of this trauma throughout his life. This is why the prosecution maintained a resolute stance to guarantee an appropriate punishment that reflects the severity of the offense and reinforces the certainty of accountability for aggression toward the lives and well-being of children.