Story By: Amelia Guran, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News

The mother of this two-year-old girl was told that her child who suffers from a deformed skull cannot go to nursery school because she would scare the other children,

The desperate parents of Sofya Zakharova, 2, were advised to get surgery to improve their daughters appearance before applying again to send her to nursery school.

However in operation agreed with medics has been constantly delayed, and experts have warned that the little girls development will be damaged if she does not get the chance to interact with other children.

Speaking about the case, Educational Psychologist Ekaterina Belan told local media: “The sooner she gets the experience of interactions, the easier it will be for her to cope with the conditions in which she lives and grows. The more interactions she gets, the easier it will be for her to accept herself for who she is. ”

The tragic story happened when the child was rejected for a place in the nursery school in the village of Alatany in the Sterlitamak District of The Republic of Bashkortostan.

Her mother, Svetlana Gizatullina, was reportedly told by the school that the fact that her daughter has a deformed skull and fingers and toes that were fused together might scare the other children, and that she would need to have surgery before they would change their mind.

Svetlana and her husband Rasul Gizatullina, who is Sofya’s dad, live with their parents in an old house. There is no water and not even any heating as their stove is broken and the gas disconnected.

Even when a local Bashkortostan charity the ‘Rainbow of Goodness’ took up the case, the school still refused to back down, and were quoted as telling the mum Svetlana Zakharova: “First, you need to arrange an operation to she can go to nursery school like an ordinary child.”

Prosecutors in the area are now investigating to who refused to accept the two-year-old girl at the school.

They are also examining why doctors have not yet performed the necessary operation for the child.

Head of the Republic of Bashkortostan Radiy Khabirov said that officials had visited the family and authorities plan to find an apartment so that they do not spend winter in a cold house.

He said: “I understand that if it were not for the intervention of the charitable foundation, there would have been no meetings on this and no relocation. It’s already clear that the rights of the child and parents are violated, and there will now be an appropriate legal assessment.”

He added that that he would personally follow the fate of the girl to make sure it stayed on track. The exact nature of the girl’s condition and its medical terminology are not currently known.

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