“By a court verdict, the man was sentenced to nine years in prison with a strict regime colony,” the ministry said in a statement.
According to investigators, on the night of June 12 in the village of Bolshoe Dolzhenkovo, Kursk region, a 24-year-old man, in a state of intoxication, tried to strangle a child.
His actions were interrupted by police officers who arrived at the scene.
Earlier it became known that the head and teachers of the Happy Baby private kindergarten in Barnaul were sentenced to suspended sentences for torturing children.