Maxim Korolev: two years of suspense
Easy. He turned the tap, warm water poured. He took soap, soaped his hands, washed away ... The simplest actions performed by most people today almost automatically and without effort, a few centuries ago, would have seemed like a magical manipulation. Most people were inaccessible to basic hygiene products - and it is not surprising that medieval Europe was regularly shaken by devastating epidemics of infectious diseases. After people remembered about hygiene and began to pay enough attention to this occupation, epidemics naturally subsided.
But what do people need to remember in order for the cases of the complete disappearance of children in our "civilized world" to sink into history like a nightmare?
Farm Kotovsky, Uryupinsky district of the Volgograd region. Two years ago, on December 8, 2010, at about 12:00, four-year-old Maxim Korolev went outside the gates of his house. The child walked several tens of meters (witnesses saw him), reached the asphalt road leading to Uryupinsk and ... disappeared.
Searches involving local residents and law enforcement began that evening. In the next three days, the forces of 20 combined police detachments at once in three regions of the region — Uryupinsky, Novonikolaevsky and Novoanninsky — were thrown to search for Maxim. The search for the child was carried out almost around the clock; volunteers from Volgograd and other cities of Russia joined the process.
Police and dog handlers, together with volunteers, checked all the wells, cellars, houses, huts, nearby camp sites, forest plantations, the shore and water area flowing near the Khopra River farm and a number of small reservoirs. Hundreds of orientations are pasted up. Dozens of cars tested. Information about Maxim was broadcast using radio stations and videos in the shops of Volgograd and regional settlements.
Nothing. No clues.
Missing Maxim Korolev was put on the federal wanted list. Orientations were distributed via the Internet throughout Russia and even abroad. The efforts of volunteer organizations have organized numerous requests to orphanages, phoning hospitals and special institutions for the arrival of the boy.
Nothing. In two years, nothing. Neither a boy nor a body was found.
Based on the official figures of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, an average of 15 thousand underage Russians disappear per year. In other words, every 30 minutes, one child disappears. 48 children a day. And out of these 48 lost, escaped, disappeared, four are never found. Every 6 hours, one child disappears forever.
To stop the spread of pathogens, often simple preventative actions are enough - but done quickly and on time. And just like hot water and soap are available to everyone now, everyone should have access to knowledge on preventing child abductions and what to do when they see an orphaned child or a child in a suspicious situation. And to put into practice this knowledge should be as easy as opening a faucet with hot water.
... And Maxim Korolev is waiting at home mom and dad. Two sisters and a brother. And the funny plush giraffe is patiently waiting for his little master. And we are all waiting ...
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