ionigeria.com Nigerian Newspaper
A Russian childminder high on drugs decapitated a six-year-old boy while the child’s mother was giving birth in the hospital.
Her partner had left the boy with a friend Sergey Podgornov, 47, who was under the influence of ‘designer drugs’ and ‘alcohol‘, according to a Russian law enforcement source.
When the partner Mikhail Grushin, 33, returned he saw the headless body of his unnamed stepson in the kitchen of their home in Engels, a city southeast of Moscow.
Podgornov, now detained, initially ‘did not remember’ he had severed the boy’s head, a police source said.
At the time the boy’s mother Elena, 36, was giving birth to her sixth child in maternity hospital.
‘I went out, sat on the porch and lit a cigarette,’ said Podgornov.
‘Then I came back, drank another glass of alcohol and I finally realised what I had done. I went out to wait for the police.’
If convicted Podgornov could face 15 years in jail.
Mikhail Grushin, 33, step-father of the murdered child, is said to have left the boy with Podgornov, who was under the influence of drugs and alcohol
The dead boy’s elder sister Arina Kuznetsova, 15, said the victim had been their mother’s fifth child.
Saratov region Children Rights Ombudsman Tatyana Zagorodnyaya said: ‘The mother remains in maternity hospital.’
Officials had gone to talk to her about funeral arrangements but were not allowed to enter her ward due to coronavirus restrictions.
