A Moscow court has handed down a 3.5-year suspended sentence to three women who gave away their children. This was reported by REN TV on Wednesday, May 27.
It is specified that in 2019, Gulia Murtazina, Zukhra Minigaleeva, and Aurika Dolich gave birth to children and, not wishing to keep them, handed the infants over to large-family mother Yulia Loginova and Natalia Patoka. These individuals had organized shelters for pregnant women who did not want to keep their children and registered the babies as their own using forged documents.
A criminal case concerning child trafficking was initiated on October 16, 2023. A total of 19 individuals are involved, including three mothers with multiple children. Loginova has 15 children under her care.
DNA test results confirmed the sale of four boys and three girls, who were adopted by Loginova with the assistance of Patoka.
The investigation into this case was concluded in early July 2025. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation forwarded the case to the prosecutor’s office for further approval of the indictment. Details on how the idea of child trafficking originated among the defendants, and other instances of infant sales, can be found in a material by “Vechernyaya Moskva.”
English Translation:
A court in Moscow has sentenced three women who gave up their children to a 3.5-year suspended sentence. This was reported by REN TV on Wednesday, May 27.
It is clarified that in 2019, Gulia Murtazina, Zukhra Minigaleeva, and Aurika Dolich gave birth to children and, not wanting to keep them, handed over the infants to large-family mother Yulia Loginova and Natalia Patoka. They had organized shelters for pregnant women who did not wish to keep their children and registered the babies as their own using fraudulent documents.
A criminal case regarding child trafficking was opened on October 16, 2023. A total of 19 defendants are involved in the case, including three mothers with multiple children. Loginova has 15 children in her care.
DNA test results confirmed the sale of four boys and three girls, who were adopted by Loginova with the assistance of Patoka.
The investigation into this case was completed in early July 2025. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation submitted the case to the prosecutor’s office for further approval of the indictment. Information on how the idea of child trafficking arose among the defendants, and other cases of infant sales, is detailed in a report by “Vechernyaya Moskva.”
