When the medical workers arrived in the house of the Merryman, they saw a very scrawny kid. “The child was extremely underweight,” said James Eyler, a representative of district police department. He also said that no signs of physical violence had been found on the body of the child.
Numerous “family friends” and relatives claim the accusations are false and groundless. For example, Olivia Merryman, the mother of the “father” of the child, said that all the accusations were “a complete lie.” According to her, Denis died from his own numerous diseases. “I personally saw him eat,” said Olivia Merryman. “He came home that day, lay down on his bed, and he never got up again,” said Samuel's father. These days the relatives of the accused point out that the boy had numerous diseases including rickets and cystitis.
Meanwhile, doctors clearly stated that the boy had died an ultimate stage of emaciation. Denis Uritsky, his elder brother and his two elder sisters were adopted in January 2000. Aside from the adopted Russian children, the Merrymans also have two children of their own, and a daughter of Donna's from her previous marriage.
The above case is one of several cases featuring American adoptive parents who killed their Russian foster children. The case of Peggy Hilt is still going on. The accused brutally beat up Vika Bazhenova, a 2-year-old Russian girl adopted in Russia. The girl died on the following day. A new round of preliminary hearing is slated for October 4th. A forensic psychiatrist will give his expert opinion on certain circumstances pertaining to the crime. An expert's opinion will play a crucial role in the outcome of the trial. Peggy Hilt will get a term of imprisonment lasting from 4 years up to 40 years if she is found guilty as charged.
One Irma Pavlis is another American mom who killed her adopted Russian son. According to her, she got completely out of hand. First she was whipping the boy's buttocks with a rubber cord. Then she began banging his head against the toilet wall until the boy passed out and stopped breathing.
Irma Pavlis was found guilty of killing her 6-year-old foster son. She was sentenced to 12 years in jail. The jury acquitted her of the charges related to premeditated murder under aggravating circumstances. She would have been jailed for 45 years without parole if the court had found her guilty of the first-degree murder of a child. The prosecutor Michael Gerber expressed his disappointment about the verdict and said he would seek maximum punishment for Irma Pavlis.
Igor Parfinenko
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