According to the UK, the woman and the child are in the hospital in serious condition.

“The attacker is 16 years old,” the UK said.

As stated in the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, on August 9, the police on duty in the Belgorod district received a message about an attack on a 24-year-old woman and a six-year-old child in the arboretum in the village of Bessonovka. 

The woman and child were hospitalized.

As part of operational activities, the criminal investigation officers detained a 16-year-old teenager and handed him over to the investigating authorities. 

In March, in the Moscow region, a man attacked a couple, during the incident a child was accidentally injured.