In Lviv, juvenile police officers have identified a 12-year-old local boy who was riding while clinging to a freight train wagon, and have brought his parents to account.
On 30 June, while monitoring social networks, law enforcement officers found a video showing an underage boy moving while holding on to a freight train wagon. During checks, they established that the incident had taken place the previous day on one of the railway tracks in Lviv.
Police identified the so-called “train surfer”: he turned out to be a 12-year-old schoolboy from Lviv. Juvenile police officers from Police Station No. 2 of Lviv District Police Department No. 2 drew up a report on his parents under Part 1 of Article 184 of the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offences.
The sanction under this article for failure by parents to fulfil their duties regarding the upbringing of children provides for a warning or a fine ranging from one to three tax-free minimum incomes of citizens.
Police stress that they regularly conduct preventive talks with schoolchildren, explaining the dangers of such “games”, and urge parents to pay attention to this problem and to tell their children about the risks of falling under the wheels of trains or public transport.