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MOSCOW — Russia will seek tougher punishment for an American couple convicted in the U.S. of the involuntary manslaughter of a 7-year-old boy they adopted from the country, authorities said Saturday.
Michael and Nanette Craver of Pennsylvania were sentenced Friday to the 19 months they already spent in prison for the 2009 head-injury death of their son Nathaniel, formerly Ivan Skorobogatov.
Russia’s Investigative Committee said in a statement that it will seek an international arrest warrant for the Cravers and prove that the murder was brutal and premeditated.
The Cravers insist the boy suffered from fetal alcohol syndrome and attachment disorders. They say he ran headlong into a stove the night before they found him unconscious.
