Rudnitskaya Irina

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2025: Arrest in newborn trafficking case

At the end of October 2025, a court in Moscow sent Irina Rudnitskaya, chairman and clinical psychologist of the Interregional Public Organization for the Protection of Family Values ​ ​ "Commonwealth of Families, Families with Children and Socially Unprotected Segments of the Population," to the pre-trial detention center. She is a defendant in a criminal case on trafficking in newborns.

According to TASS, in addition to Rudnitskaya, two more people were arrested - an entrepreneur from the Moscow region, as well as a woman whose child could be sold to another family. Another person involved is the head of one of the private medical clinics in Shchelkov near Moscow.

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Rudnitskaya is accused of committing a crime under Art. 127.1 of the Criminal Code - trafficking in children. Such acts are punishable by imprisonment for up to 10 years with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for up to 15 years. It follows from the documents that the woman has 12 children aged 3 to 17 years dependent. The defense asked the court "for the sake of the children" to choose a preventive measure for the defendant, not related to isolation from society, but the prosecutor's office insisted on arrest. Rudnitskaya's lawyer announced plans to appeal the court decision. At the same time, she herself fully admitted guilt.

Rudnitskaya fully pleaded guilty to the act that she was charged with, spoke in detail about the committed act in which she repents, and is ready to cooperate with the investigation, the case file says.

TASS reports on the events that took place in February 2025. Then a certain married couple decided to acquire a newborn from a woman who was illegally in Russia. In a private clinic in Shchelkov, they allegedly agreed with a doctor who agreed to give birth for 150 thousand rubles and draw up all the necessary official documents in the names of the spouses.^[1]

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