A jury panel in Ekaterinburg has convicted a 41-year-old mother over the murder of her three-year-old son with extreme cruelty.
The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Sverdlovsk Oblast confirmed to Lenta.ru that the guilty verdict was delivered in regional criminal court. The presiding court will issue its final sentence based on the jury verdict in the near future.
Valery Gorelykh, head of the press service for the regional police department, stated that the accused did not admit her guilt during the trial. Gorelykh noted that the woman continuously attempted to exonerate herself throughout the entire duration of the criminal investigation.
Investigation into child fatality
According to law enforcement investigators, the fatal incident occurred in early April inside an apartment located on Sirenevy Boulevard in Ekaterinburg.
Investigators reported that the woman severely beat her young son inside the residence. Following the assault, she failed to seek medical assistance for 24 hours and did not attempt to provide medical aid to her son herself before the child died.
Ekaterinburg is the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the fourth-largest city in Russia, situated along the Iset River on the eastern side of the Ural Mountains. Under the Russian legal system, severe criminal offenses are submitted to a panel of jurors to establish guilt before a judge issues the official sentence.
Related negligence sentencing in Chelyabinsk
The verdict comes after a separate criminal ruling in the nearby city of Chelyabinsk, where a local female resident was found guilty of causing death by negligence in the case of her five-year-old daughter. Judicial authorities in that proceeding sentenced the mother to one and a half years of restriction of freedom.
Chelyabinsk is a major industrial city located in west-central Russia, situated south of Ekaterinburg near the Ural Mountains. Regional law enforcement agencies across both Sverdlovsk Oblast and Chelyabinsk Oblast operate under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, which maintains central administrative oversight over regional police operations.
