YEREVAN. – A 9-year-old Tigran Papikyan has been for two days at the Armenian Relief Fund support center. He has escaped from a boarding school in Yerevan and was found in one of the shops on Abovyan-Koryun crossroad. Tigran claims that he was beaten with a karate stick in the boarding school, so he escaped.

The child has been taken to the Fund support center, Armenian Ombudsman’s staff stated but his relatives took him home. Anyway, the child again was found in the street on Dec. 21, as the Ombudsman’s staff alarms and although he has relatives, they refuse to care for him properly.