Anna Shavenkova, who hit two sisters on Lenin Street in 2009, said her surname keeps her from getting a job and she lives in isolation. She apologized to the Pyatkov family and said she still suffers from it.
The daughter of the head of the regional election commission, Lyudmila Shavenkova, Anna, who in 2009 ran over two young women on Lenin Street, admitted that she cannot get a job because of her surname.“My life consists of nothing. I cannot get a job. They tell me bluntly — change your surname. No one wants to have anything to do with me. Even if I go out with my children to the square and kneel, or, I don’t know, jump off a balcony with the whole family, everyone will say: she had it coming,” Anna Shavenkova said.
The culprit in the fatal crash publicly apologized to the Pyatkov family, expressing regret that they cannot accept it.
“The fact that I didn’t go up to them… maybe, but I was scared. Now it’s a lesson for me for life. Do you think it was easy for me? I was six months pregnant, I can see everything from the window. And they are lying there, not moving. I look at it every day. If I had taken another road, the girl, Lena, would be alive. That’s the thought that constantly haunts me, and you all want to see something in me,” the amnestied woman added.
As a reminder, six years ago Anna Shavenkova, while driving a car, ran over two sisters, Yulia and Elena Pyatkova, who were walking along the sidewalk in the city center. Surveillance cameras recorded that after the collision Shavenkova got out of her car and began inspecting it instead of helping the victims of the accident. As a result, one sister died, and the other was left disabled for life.
In March 2011, the judge sentenced Anna Shavenkova to 2.5 years in prison with a 14-year reprieve. In May 2015, Shavenkova was amnestied on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.