A mother killed three children in Kansk, and their surviving brother was beaten by his father. The main thing

In Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Territory, three children were killed, the oldest of whom was eight years old. Their mother confessed that she had strangled her daughter and hacked her two sons to death with an axe. After her arrest, the police also detained the children's father, suspected of torturing another surviving child, and the juvenile affairs inspector. What is known about the high—profile crime is in the Izvestia material.

What is known about the murder

• The high-profile murder in Kansk became known on April 14. A 29-year-old woman strangled her four-year-old daughter and hacked her two sons to death with an axe. One of them was eight years old, the other was seven months old. All of them lived in the private sector and occupied one of the four apartments in the wooden house.

The woman has one seven-year-old son. He was at school at the time of the crime. When the child returned home, he saw the consequences of the massacre of his brothers and sister. His mother took him to her parents and told them what she had done. After that, their grandfather came to their house, and he found the bodies of his grandchildren with chopped wounds on various parts of their bodies. The head of the youngest of them was completely separated and was in the sideboard.

• It is known that the woman was sober at the time of the crime. However, she has been registered at a neuropsychiatric dispensary since 2019, and she was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. The woman showed signs of unhealthy behavior shortly before giving birth, when she was hospitalized to preserve her pregnancy. Officially, the girl was not employed and was a housewife. Three weeks before the murder, she began to disappear from home at night, explaining that she was tired.

• A criminal case has been opened against the woman under paragraphs "a", "b", "d" of Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder of two or more young children with special cruelty). Although this article provides for a penalty of up to life imprisonment, for women the term is limited to 20 years in prison. To be found guilty, a woman will have to be declared sane. She is currently in jail, the court has arrested her for two months.

Who else is detained

• The fact that the family was dysfunctional and demanded increased attention was known long before the triple murder. In October 2024, a teacher at the school discovered injuries on the body of a seven-year-old boy and reported it. It turned out that the child was beaten by his father. The family was registered, which was assigned to the senior Inspector for Juvenile Affairs of Kansk.

• However, during the investigation of the murder, it was discovered that the inspector had not collected the necessary materials, had not organized a conversation with educational and medical institutions, and had not identified the mother's mental illness. Since last October, the inspector has met with the children's father once and visited their homes once.

• As a result, another criminal case was initiated under Part 4 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (negligence resulting in the death of two or more persons). The Senior Juvenile Affairs Inspector was detained and faces up to five years in prison with a ban on holding certain positions for up to three years. The court released her, banning her from certain actions until the end of the investigation.

• The children's father was also detained. He was charged with torturing a surviving seven-year-old boy. The investigation found that the man had been systematically beating the child since the summer of 2018, that is, almost throughout his short life. When the child was three years old, his father broke his nose.

• Currently, the man has been arrested for two months. At a court hearing on the selection of a preventive measure, he stated that he would not appeal the decision and considered it fair. He also said that he beat his wife for not feeding their children on time.