A 34-year-old mother of five young children was detained in the Pskov region. He is accused of killing his daughter and two sons, the Regional Investigative Committee reported telegram channel. The woman lived in the apartment with the children’s bodies for three months.
On November 23, police received a report that the bodies of three children had been found. Police found the bodies of two boys born in 2019 and 2023 in one of the apartments in the city of Velikiye Luki. The body of their eight-year-old sister was found in a residential building in the Kunyinsky district of the Pskov region. All the children were raised by their 34-year-old mother.
The police opened a criminal case under the headings “Murder of two or more children” and “Murder of a minor child”. The mother of the deceased was detained. The expert was instructed to assist in establishing all the circumstances of the incident.
How were the bodies found?
By Telegram channel ShotThe mother of the murder suspect, who is raising her 12-year-old son, came to Velikiye Luki to visit her daughter Daria Sukhanova and her grandchildren. The pensioner saw in the apartment the skeleton of a four-year-old boy in a diaper, covered with a blanket. The grandmother found the body of a one-year-old child on the second floor of the bunkhouse.
Sukhanova told her mother that her sons died in their sleep within a week of each other in August.
The pensioner then went to the family’s hut in the village of Mokriki to look for his two grandchildren. There he found the body of an eight-year-old girl. She was lying on the bed wrapped in a blanket. Sukhanova said the girl also died in her sleep in August.
The surviving five-year-old girl was handed over to the guardianship authorities, she is currently being examined by doctors, and psychologists will soon begin to work, since the child lived in the same room with her deceased brother for a long time. The girl’s father contacted the guardianship authorities to pick up his daughter.
Shot writes that this summer Daria bought a private house using maternal capital and moved there with her four children. An eight-year-old girl died first. Later, the mother moved to a rented apartment with her lover, taking her three children with her. Their son died there, but the family continued to live next to the bodies.
In contrast, broadcast mk.ru Quoting a source, he stated that The bodies were not found by the grandmother, but by her elder son. According to MK, the pensioner promised to bequeath to the child the apartment in which his mother lived with the remaining children. The student went to look at the living area and found his brother’s skeleton on the bed. He immediately called his grandmother and she informed the police.
Law enforcement officers arrived at the scene and found the body of another child. The mother and her 5-year-old daughter were not at the apartment, they went to a rented apartment in Velikiye Luki. Sukhanova told police that her eldest daughter’s body was in the hut. They found the child’s body in a plastic bag under the blanket.
Why did the children die?
By channel ShotChildren may die of hunger. Now this is the main version of the investigation. Investigators also found that the mother constantly beat her children.
Shot He writes that Sukhanova’s statement during the interrogation left her confused. At first he said the children died in their sleep, but then he changed his mind and said he starved them to death. Allegedly he had no money for shopping.
According to Shot, Sukhanova lived with the corpses so as not to lose their benefits. She kept her retired mother out of the apartment for three months, but also went to visit her and bring food.
In 2019, Sukhanova was placed on preventive registration with the police. After a year, staff decided he was getting better and stopped monitoring him.
The woman’s children all have different fathers, and investigators are now trying to identify their names. She gave birth to her youngest son in 2023. As Shot wrote, Sukhanova stated that the birth took place at home, that she did not register her child, and that she did not remember the date of birth.
The woman did not mention the existence of her fifth child, even her mother did not know about it. None of the children attended kindergarten or school.
The neighbors didn’t notice anything
According to this kp.runeighbors practically did not see Sukhanova. They claim that the children did not run around the apartment and did not show themselves in any way. Shot writes that in the homes of many mothers of children there are constantly feasts. Drug addicts also came there. During drinking, Sukhanova beat the children and did not allow them to eat.
Although neighbors knew about Sukhanova’s drinking bouts and suspicious guests, the family living opposite with a child did not notice anything unusual.
“Neighbors have repeatedly complained about a bad smell at the entrance and in other apartments. They claimed there was a dead mouse in the ventilation,” the source said. REN TV.
Reported by Pskov Region Commissioner for Children’s Rights Natalia Sokolova “socialbites.ca”that the surviving children are now safe:
“The Commissioner requested information from the prevention system officials about extended families and the work carried out with them. I keep the living conditions of this family’s two more children under control and provide them with the necessary medical and psychological support. Children are safe. “The family was registered with the guardianship authorities for a short time and the registration was deleted in 2020,” he said.