On March 12, an extraordinary incident took place in Yerevan. Around 10:15, the Nor Nork Division of the Community Police Department of the RA Ministry of Internal Affairs received an alert that one of the residents of the special shelter located at 29/1 Moldovakan Street was in a mentally unbalanced state and asked a police officer to come to him in order to take him to a mental health center.

Shamshyan.com reports that after some time, the Nor Nork Police Department received information that a child who was abused at the address was taken by the ambulance team to the Wigmore Medical Center with the diagnosis of “bruises on the body and neck with a lip injury.”

According to the source, the officers of the Nor Nork police department found out that the victim was a 3-year-old boy, an Iraqi citizen, and on the same day, around 10:00 a.m., the 35-year-old mother shouted at the child in the allocated room, after which she hit him several times on different parts of the body, then threw him from the bed to the floor and dragged him, causing physical injuries.

On the facts of the incident, documents were drawn up in the Nor Nork police department, which were transferred to the investigative department of the Avan and Nor Nork administrative districts of the Yerevan City Investigation Department of the RA Investigative Committee.

Notice: The person suspected or accused of the alleged crime is considered innocent, until his guilt is proven in accordance with the procedure established by the RA Criminal Procedure Code, by the court’s legally binding verdict.

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