{"id":589888,"date":"2026-10-16T10:14:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T07:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=589888"},"modified":"2026-10-16T11:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T08:07:09","slug":"mahiliou-amusement-park-manager-sentenced-to-2-5-years-in-an-open-type-penal-colony-over-trainee-s-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/mahiliou-amusement-park-manager-sentenced-to-2-5-years-in-an-open-type-penal-colony-over-trainee-s-death","title":{"rendered":"Mahiliou Amusement Park Manager Sentenced to 2.5 Years in an Open-Type Penal Colony Over Trainee\u2019s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Kastrychnitski District Court of Mahiliou found a 25-year-old amusement park manager guilty of violating safety regulations, resulting in a person\u2019s death through negligence.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was sentenced to two years and six months in an open-type penal colony and barred from holding positions involving organisational and managerial responsibilities for five years.<\/p>\n<p>The accident occurred on May 1 this year. An 18-year-old second-year college student was operating the \u201cSalto\u201d ride to earn extra money.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThe amusement park manager independently allowed a job applicant to work without an employment contract or a civil-law agreement. The young man had not undergone a medical examination, training, an internship, initial safety instruction or a knowledge assessment in industrial safety and occupational health,\u201d<\/i> the prosecutor\u2019s office <a href=\"https:\/\/prokuratura.gov.by\/ru\/media\/novosti\/nadzor-za-resheniyami-po-ugolovnym-i-grazhdanskim-delam\/iz-za-narusheniya-v-161026\/\">said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, after the ride\u2019s operating cycle ended, the young man failed to secure the counterweight with the locking mechanism. After the passengers had disembarked, the counterweight shifted. The young man suffered a fatal blow to the head.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cDuring the court hearing, the defendant fully admitted her guilt and sincerely repented of the violations she had committed,\u201d<\/i> the prosecutor\u2019s office added.<\/p>\n<p>The court also ordered the ride\u2019s owner to pay 150,000 rubles in compensation for moral damage to the deceased\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n<p>The verdict has not yet entered into force and may be appealed or challenged through the appellate procedure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kastrychnitski District Court of Mahiliou found a 25-year-old amusement park manager guilty of violating safety regulations, resulting in a person\u2019s death through negligence. The woman was sentenced to two years and six months in an open-type penal colony and barred from holding positions involving organisational and managerial responsibilities for five years. The accident occurred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":589889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ad1db32948ad.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Mahiliou Amusement Park Manager Sentenced to 2.5 Years in an Open-Type Penal Colony Over Trainee\u2019s Death"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589892,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589888\/revisions\/589892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}