Teenage Mum Starves Baby To Death
A teenager branded ‘monster mum’ who left her five-month-old baby to starve to death while she went out partying for two weeks has had her appeal for a more lenient sentence rejected.
Alyona Ipatova, 19, tried to claim it was her mum and dad’s failure to teach her parenting skills that led to her leaving her baby alone in an apartment in Russia for a fortnight.
But judges who heard the appeal were so outraged they not only confirmed her sentence of a decade of hard labour, they increased it by two-and-a-half years.
Ipatova was sentenced to 10 years after being found guilty of leaving her daughter Veronika to die by a court in St Petersburg.
At the trial in September she admitted to leaving her baby alone for two weeks and finding the tragic tot dead on her return.
The crop-haired teenager told the sentence hearing: “I really regret what I did. I did not want that to happen. I realise what I have done.”
And she blamed her parents for mistreating her when she was a child.
Her lawyer Oleg Kiyashko also claimed she had asked the child’s father to help look after their daughter.
He said: “Yes, she left the child at times. Although she left her, sometimes she came back in the morning or the father was at home, so he could still look after the girl.”
But judges rejected a defence plea to alter her charge from the murder of a minor with cruelty to causing death by negligence.
Judges also rejected the prosecution’s appeal for a 19-year sentence.
Source: Mirror
She don’t have any excuse to starve her baby to death. God will surely judge her.
Are you kidding me???? But you parents never staved you to death! Even an adult will die of hunger if left for that long!
This is wickedness. Rip baby
Now she’s looking for who to blame smh. Monster mum
And who is she blaming? By de time she serve her jail time n cm out @ 29 yrs den she will be careful nxt tym mtcheeew she get luck no be naija prison lolz
Gosh what was she tinking?
Oh God..imagine how the poor baby must have cried before dying.RIP little one.She doesn’t deserve you
What a life!!! When some women are praying and fasting for a baby this one left hers to starve to death? She still has the mind to plead for leniency, how I wish she was sentenced for life. RIP Little angel.
That serves her right
Child abuse,she doesn’t know the value of having a baby. Shm!
Biology does not make one a mother
Why Bring a Child into This World n then let Them die .Its Nt Fair.I Cant bear to read all this kind of new.It saddens me.
This one na monster mother o.haba! I wish they throw u for kirikiri max prison..
Good judgement, a decade with 2 and half years plus hard labour…She deserve even more
Teenagers should zip-up and stop having children that they aren’t capable of taking care of.
Jst 12 and half years 4 such cruelty?She deserves worse
God bless that court for dashing her that extra sentence. Imagine having the guts to appeal does that mean she does not understand the gravity of the crime she committed. I wonder what she thought after leaving a defenceless innocent baby alone. I know d little angel is resting in peace