Children in Russian Orphanage Allege Rape

Expand The village of Cheremushki, Chelyabinsk Oblast, where the Lazurnenskaya Residential Corrective School is located. © 2013 Google Seven boys under the age of 14 who had been living in an orphanage for children with disabilities in the Chelyabinsk region of south-central Russia allege they were raped by orphanage staff and visitors, a lawyer for some of the boys told Human Rights Watch. The boys are now with adoptive or foster families. According to Russian media reports, in February, three of the boys’ guardians told the director of the Lazurnenskaya Residential Corrective School, where…

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