The brutal killing of a little girl in Moscow was monstrous, inexplicable, Russian children’s rights commissioner Pavel Astakhov said Monday.
Earlier on Monday, a decapitated body of a four year-old child was found by law enforcement officers in a Moscow apartment after a blaze that was started by her nanny, according to the investigative committee. The woman reportedly waited for the parents and an older child to leave before brutally killing the little girl. The suspect, a citizen of one of the Central Asian states, was detained.
The nanny allegedly killed the 4-year-old girl, beheaded her, set the apartment on fire, and later took the child’s head to a nearby subway station, where she wielded it around threatening passers-by.
“Another horrifying story of the murder of an infant girl, presumably by her nanny, took place in Moscow. Monstrous and inexplicable. The suspect in the murder of the child was detained due to vigilant policeman near the Oktyabrskoye Pole metro [station],” Astakhov wrote on his Twitter.
The ombudsman called on all parents to carry out careful inspections of nannies they hire.
The unconscious mother of the victim has been reportedly hospitalized.
The tragedy with the child murdered by her nanny in Moscow is not what should be reported in mass media, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday.
“This is probably too grotesque to show over the television and you know that mass media all around the world avoid showing videos of such tragic and monstrous occurrences and there are plenty of examples of this and this is how mass media show their civil position,” Peskov told journalists when asked why central Russian televisions decided not to fully cover the tragedy using video cuts.
On Monday, a nanny allegedly killed a 4-year-old girl, beheaded her, set the apartment on fire, and later took the child’s head to a nearby subway station, where she wielded it around threatening passers-by.
Picture: Russian police officers secure an area near to a subway station in Moscow on Monday, Feb. 29, 2016
