The 31-year-old Olga Stepanova was found guilty of causing death by negligence. On the basis of Part 1 of Article 144 of the Criminal Code, she was sentenced to imprisonment for 6 months with serving a sentence in a penal colony in a settlement. For the time provided for appealing the sentence, the measure of restraint for her was changed to a written undertaking not to leave the place (4 months before the trial, Olga Stepanova was in the SIZO).

The trial was closed, the verdict was announced on September 7. On September 18, the court of Zheleznodorozhny district of Viciebsk received appeals from Olga Stepanova and her lawyer.

The woman who gave birth on February 19 at home, but could not cope when she noticed that the child does not breathe, does not consider the court verdict fair. Olga Stepanova believes that the attitude towards her is conditioned by statements about the advantages of home births and the desire to give birth not in a medical institution expressed during pregnancy. Olga's relatives repeatedly told reporters that Olga's categorical refusal was not, but the birth began suddenly.

Seeing that the newborn baby does not breathe, Olga asked to call an ambulance. According to the mother, Nadezhda Kuznetsova, the ambulance was traveling too long. And it is the unprofessionalism of the doctors that she explains that the baby is dead. The doctors stated the death of the newborn girl after the hospitalization of the mother and child.

BS, svaboda.org