MOSCOW, August 2 (RAPSI) - A Russian court will consider on October 4 a lawsuit filed by the Social Protection Administration of the Pskov region against the American parents of the deceased Maxim Kuzmin and his brother Kirill, the Izvestia daily said on Friday.
Alan and Laura Shatto adopted the boys in September 2012. The guardianship department of the Social Protection Administration seeks reversal of a court decision permitting the adoption of the children.
According to the newspaper, the letter with the summons has been already sent to a Texan family.
The death of three-year-old Maxim Kuzmin has caused a public uproar. Children's Rights Commissioner Pavel Astakhov announced the death of the boy on February 18. He tweeted that the child had been given powerful "psychotropic substances," and he was badly beaten before he died in a hospital on January 21.
On March 1, the Texas authorities announced that the boy's death was not criminal based on the autopsy results. The four doctors who reviewed the results ruled the death accidental.
Initially, the investigators did not rule out that his adoptive parents could be charged with neglect in the boy's death. Ector County District Attorney Bobby Bland stated on Monday that his office will not charge the adoptive parents in the boy's death.
Meanwhile, the Foreign Ministry said the decision not to bring charges against his adoptive parents raises "serious concerns" in Russia.
The Investigative Committee reported earlier that the local authorities in the Pskov region have launched a criminal investigation into alleged negligence in the processing of both boys' adoption documents.