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In St. Petersburg, a woman tried to drown her son, and a young man killed his mother

Criminal cases involving relatives of victims were initiated in St. Petersburg. Tragedies occurred in the Nevsky and Krasnoselsky districts. Investigators now need to figure out what prompted the suspects to take the creepy step.

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In St. Petersburg, a woman tried to drown her son, and a young man killed his mother

On Monday, October 12, Sledkom announced the initiation of a criminal case on murder. The body of the woman was found the day before in the apartment of the house on the street Dmitry Ustinov. The killer stabbed her many times.

“On suspicion of committing this crime detained 19-year-old son of the deceased”, — said in Sledkom.

Another wild case occurred in the Krasnoselsky district on October 8. According to investigators, in the afternoon 41-year-old Valentina brought her 12-year-old son to the Duderhof lake not in order to admire the local fauna. She pulled a pre-purchased 70 percent vinegar out of the bag and poured it into the baby's mouth. Then he tried to drown his son.

“She immersed him in water and fled the scene without assistance. The boy was able to climb out of the water on his own, the joint press service of St. Petersburg courts said.

An ambulance for a poisoned and burned acetic acid child called bystanders. The victim was hospitalized in the anesthesiology and intensive care unit of the Rauchfus Children's Multidisciplinary Center. According to the media, doctors had to enter the young patient into an artificial coma. His mother was arrested, charged with attempted murder of a minor and sent to jail. Journalists quickly found out that the arrested woman is a mother of many children. In the family, in addition to the son, two daughters of 9 and 13 years old are brought up. The woman worked as an art historian and urbanist, was the founder and head of a fashion art center, and also led a “blog for mothers”, where she showed classes with children and talked about her friendly family.

Her husband Alexander told reporters that that day he took his daughters to school, and his wife – son. By the evening, she had not returned home, and then he received a call from the hospital.

“I didn’t even know he was in intensive care. I thought that he ran away from his mother and he should be taken home, the portal 78 quotes the man.

Strangeness in the behavior of his wife, he began to notice after his son was diagnosed: the boy was found to be behind in development. The child does not understand the speech addressed to him and cannot speak. Valentina then had a nervous breakdown. But, according to Alexander, she pulled herself together, constantly talked with her son, gave him a lot of time. In February, she started talking to herself. The man said that Valentina began difficulties at work: the organization she leads, went into the red. Now Alexander has to deal with the loans of his wife and look for a lawyer for her. He believes that the appointed defender will not cope. He and his family have not said anything about what happened.

According to media reports, during the interrogation, Valentina told about debts, her husband’s health problems and her abortion. The son, according to her, was difficult to control: on the street he could run away from the escort, grabbed everything he could reach, and imitated sounds, because of which passers-by made remarks. She said that she offered to send the boy to a boarding school, but her husband was against it. They were late for school that day and were not allowed in, so she took her son to her parents, but because his behavior attracted the attention of passengers, she had to leave early at Duderhof station. Valentine bought two bottles of vinegar on her way to the lake. For myself and my son. The first sip of the boy allegedly made himself... And when he fell into the water, she ran off to the park, where she sat for a couple of hours. I spent the night in an abandoned house. I went to my parents and they called the police. His guilt in the attempt to kill the child Valentina admitted in part.

Source: Московский комсомолец ↗

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