A woman was punished for being beaten by her husband. Because the aggressor did it in front of their children.

He broke her ribs, bit her finger and tried to strangle her: a woman who was systematically beaten and persecuted by her husband was convicted in Moscow. The woman filed for divorce, but the aggressor continued to harass her as the first convictions and ongoing investigation under two criminal articles for "battery" and "threats to kill" doesn't stop him at all.

In May a protocol on an administrative offense was drawn up against the husband and an administrative fine of 10.000 rubles was imposed. In court, the man openly admitted that this was not the first time he had used physical force against his wife, but tried to shift the blame to her, saying that "she herself beats and provokes him."

It didn't stop him. Alexandra filed for divorce, still he came back, next time in June 2023 he beat her again up, took her phone, keys to the apartment, locked her in the apartment and left. She got to the hospital the next morning with broken ribs. In October the next episode, he beat and strangled her. During the trial the court established the "presence of mitigating circumstances" in the form of the presence of minor children, an elderly dependent mother, remorse for the deed.

At the latest episode in January 2024, the man came to Alexandra's rented one-room apartment where she was with two children, at first he began to demand to dress and give him his daughter, and when the woman asked him to leave, he began to beat and strangle her, he himself called the police and said that it was "his wife who threw herself at him."

The Commission on Minor Affairs in Moscow decided that the woman, by "allowing herself to be beaten in the presence of children", was "poorly fulfilling her parental responsibilities". Therefore it found her guilty and imposed an administrative penalty. Now the victim is trying to challenge this decision in the Moscow City court as the district court already upheld the decision.