Teenage Russian 'Kevorkians'

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Russian Teenage Girls Go On Trial In Euthanasia Case

A court in South Russia’s Rostov Region began hearings into a euthanasia case on Monday. The two suspects are teenage girls who killed their neighbor because she was suffering so much from injuries received in a car crash, the RIA-Novosti news agency reports. .

17-year-old Kristina Patrina and 14-year-old Marta Shkermanova are accused of murdering their neighbor in spring 2004.

The girls have told the investigators that the woman herself asked to be killed because she was suffering too much from injuries she received in a car crash. Every time the woman tried to move she experienced pains and could not bear it any more, the girls said.

The victim herself contacted her neighbor, Patrina, and asked the girl to kill her, promising to pay her for the service. Patrina agreed and together with her friend Shkermanova put the woman out of her misery.

At first the girls tried to kill the woman by injecting air into her veins, but due to lack of medical experience they could not find the victim’s veins. Eventually, they strangled the woman with a rope, which the teenagers claim was on the advice of the victim.

After killing the woman, the girls took the money she had promised them — 4,750 rubles, or about $160.

The court has qualified the activities of the suspects as a premeditated murder committed by a group of people as a result of a conspiracy.

Russian law has no definition of euthanasia.