Court in Odesa leaves child killer under house arrest

In Odesa, a court has remanded in custody a woman suspected of murdering a newborn child. The investigation believes that after giving birth in a dormitory, she threw the girl from the sixth floor.

This was reported by Suspilne. Odesa.

The Prymorskyi District Court of Odesa left a 39-year-old woman suspected of killing her newborn child on September 8 under nightly house arrest. This decision was supported by the prosecutor, and the defense did not object.

The suspect was taken to court in handcuffs under escort. Prosecutor Oleg Plotitsky said that the woman hid her pregnancy, was not registered and did not seek medical attention. According to him, she gave birth on her own in a dormitory toilet, and threw the newborn girl, in a serious physical and mental condition after giving birth, from the sixth floor.

The woman is charged with premeditated murder of her child immediately after birth under Article 117 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

The prosecutor requested a nightly house arrest, given the need for treatment and medical supervision for the suspect. She herself and her lawyer Svetlana Rakhyanskaya supported this decision. Judge Dmytro Osiik granted the motion and imposed a 60-day pre-trial restraint.

The pre-trial investigation is currently underway. According to the prosecutor, all witnesses have been interrogated, and examinations have been ordered to establish the woman's physiological and psychological state during the incident. The prosecutor's office is preparing a comprehensive psychological and psychiatric examination. Journalists were not allowed to talk to the suspect after the hearing.

According to the investigation, the woman has a young son who currently lives with his grandmother in Mykolaiv region. Law enforcement officers passed the information about the mother to social services to determine the child's fate.

If the woman's guilt is proven, she could face up to five years of restriction of liberty or imprisonment.

In June, police investigators completed a pre-trial investigation and submitted to the Suvorov Court of Odesa the case of an Odesa woman and her partner who failed to help their son and hid the body in a freezer after his death.

Анна Бальчінос