The baby's body was found in an apartment littered with garbage in St. Petersburg.

The baby's body was found in a St. Petersburg apartment littered with garbage. This was announced on Saturday, March 1, by the city Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia in St. Petersburg.

It is noted that on February 28, investigators received a message about the death of a child.

"During the inspection of the accident site..."It has been established that the child's body was found in conditions unsuitable for habitation, in the presence of a significant amount of garbage and violations of sanitary conditions," the Telegram channel said.

The department added that a criminal case had been opened under Part 1 of Article 109 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Causing death by negligence").

Terrible discovery: what is known about the murder of children in the Tver region

The suspect in the case is the babies' father.

On February 11, a source from Izvestia said that a local resident was in Stavropol strangled her four-month-old daughter with a pillow. According to the source, the 33-year-old woman strangled the child with a pillow, and then tried to take her own life. Police officers arrested the child's mother. A criminal case was opened against her.