Boy hangs himself to make his parents stop drinking
The boy was living with his mother, a 31-year-old unemployed woman, his step-father and five siblings. His mother and step-father were alcoholics; the child repeatedly asked them to stop drinking threatening to commit suicide otherwise, officials said.
On November 11, 2010, the parents went to visit their friend living in a house nearby. The boy begged them to stop drinking and come home, but the parents just told him to go away and hang himself, if he wanted to. The next morning, his mother found the boy in the barn dead.
Prosecutors of the investigation committee of the Altay region instituted criminal proceedings against the boy's parents on Article 11 of the Penal Code of the
According to investigators, the boy, the oldest child in the family, killed himself because of the anti-social lifestyle of his parents.
