Ukraine lawmakers to discuss child sex abuse at Artek
October 20th, 2009 - 7:08 pm ICT by IANS
- Kiev, Oct 20 (RIA Novosti) Ukraine’s parliament will discuss Tuesday the allegations about involvement of its three unnamed members and others in child sex abuse at a well-known holiday camp, a report said.
The Artek camp, located in the southern Crimea on the country’s Black sea coast, has been in the news since Oct 13, when a lawmaker from Ukraine’s opposition political party alleged that two siblings had been raped at the camp and top officials were involved in this case.
Members of the Supreme Rada (the Ukrainian parliament) are expected to hear investigation reports from the prosecutor general, the interior minister and a parliamentary human rights envoy.
The parliament is also expected to form a special investigation committee.
The police have detained a man suspected of sexually assaulting his own children in the camp, the report added.
The report said that Artek general director Boris Novozhilov was hospitalised last Saturday with heart problems after the police searched the apartments of some of his relatives in Kiev in connection with the case.
Artek is famous as the main Soviet-era camp attracting the children since 1930s. The camp closed this winter due to financial problems, but resumed its work in February.
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