A Russian mother allegedly killed her baby and two young children before taking her son, 7, to visit his grandparents because she ‘did not have the strength to deal with him’.
Valentina Mytko, 29, hacked her daughter, four, and sons, eight and seven months, to death with an axe, according to the country’s Investigative Committee.
Mytko is under investigation for the multiple murders of her children ‘with particular cruelty’ in Kansk, Krasnoyarsk region on April 14.
Neighbours heard screams as the eight-year-old was killed, according to the evidence in the case.
‘He screamed really loudly,’ said one.
The killings were witnessed by the woman’s other child, a boy aged seven, when he returned from school, according to reports.
The church-going mother took the boy to his grandparents and ‘sat down and cried’.
Committee official Yulia Arbuzova said: ‘He did not see what happened there.
‘He was in another room.
A mother allegedly killed her baby and two young children before taking her son, 7, to visit his grandparents because she ‘did not have the strength to deal with him’
Valentina Mytko, 29, from Russia , hacked her daughter, four, and sons, eight and seven months to death with an axe, according to the country’s Investigative Committee
Chilling footage shows the police investigating the crime scene and murder weapon after the horrific attack
A police officer can be seen picking up a rusty axe (pictured) as a colleague examines it for traces of blood
‘Then the woman took the boy and went to her parents, and she told them what happened.
‘Her father went into the house and found the children there, after which [he] called the police.’
Later during an interrogation she could not explain what had happened but allegedly told investigators that she ‘did not have the strength to deal with [her surviving son].’
The killings happened after the woman’s husband, a driver, had gone out to work, it is alleged.
The children were found to have ‘axe wounds to their heads and various parts of their bodies’, reported the official Kremlin newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
The suspected axe allegedly used as the murder weapon was found at the site of the killings.
Chilling footage shows the police investigating the crime scene and murder weapon after the horrific attack.
The children were found to have ‘axe wounds to their heads and various parts of their bodies’, reported the official Kremlin newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
Neighbours heard screams as the eight-year-old was killed, according to the evidence in the case
Russian social services officials are facing criminal prosecution for ‘negligence’ over the deaths as the investigating committee believes officials knew Mytko had been registered with ‘paranoid schizophrenia’, and that the children were at risk, yet did not act
In one clip a police officer can be seen picking up a rusty axe as a colleague examines it for traces of blood.
The Investigative Committee of Russia for Krasnoyarsk Krai and the Republic of Khakassia said in a statement: ‘A report was received about the discovery in a private home on Gertsena Street in the city of Kansk of the bodies of three young children: a four-year-old girl and two boys aged seven months and eight years with cut wounds to the head and various parts of the body.’
Russian social services officials are facing criminal prosecution for ‘negligence’ over the deaths as the investigating committee believes officials knew Mytko had been registered with ‘paranoid schizophrenia’, and that the children were at risk, yet did not act.
