A MUM choked her two-year-old daughter to death by stuffing bread in her mouth because she had sprinkled crumbs on the kitchen floor.
Svetlana Mirzoeva, 28, has been charged with murder after allegedly shoving a chunk of bread into the girl’s mouth and causing her to suffocate.
The incident occurred in the family’s home in the Russian city of Omsk after the toddler had been left playing unattended.
While playing, the girl crumbled a piece of bread and scattered crumbs on the kitchen floor, reports said.
The mother became angry when she discovered the mess and wanted to punish the child for “spoiling a loaf of bread”, police reported.
She made the girl sit on her lap and pushed the piece of bread into the girls mouth, stopping only when the child’s arms fell limp.
A loaf of bread costs 32 rubles, or £0.39, in the city, local media reported.
The mother told police during an interrogation: “She [the child] stopped breathing and I tried to pull the bread out of her mouth.
“Then I realised that she was already dead.”
Mirzoeva then persuaded her boyfriend, who was in the next room during the murder, to hide the body.
The mother said to detectives: “He [her boyfriend] wrapped the body into a blue towel and put it into a sports bag.
“Then he went outside and threw the bag away.”
Mirzoeva’s boyfriend died from alcohol intoxication ten days after the incident, and it is not currently known where he hid the body, police confirmed.
Ruslan Moiseev, the deputy head of Omsk Regional Police Department, said: “The incident occurred one month ago. The police are now searching for the child’s body in the area where the crime occurred and in the landfill site outside the city.”
After getting rid of her daughter’s body, Mirzoeva continued to live as if nothing had happened, but neighbours soon noticed the girl’s disappearance and called the police.
A spokesperson for the Investigative Committee, Russia’ main investigative authority, said: “The mother was seen walking only with her little son while her daughter was not around.
“Some neighbours became suspicious and reported the girl’s disappearance to the police.
“Speaking with detectives, the woman confessed to murdering her child.
Svetlana Mirzoeva has now been charged with murder of a minor and placed in police custody.
Her three-year-old son, who reportedly witnessed the murder of his sister, was taken to an orphanage. It has not been reported if there are relatives willing to take custody of the boy.
Mirzoeva faces up to 15 years in prison if found guilty. The investigation is ongoing.
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