In Tolyatti, girls aged 2 and 5 were killed; their 13-year-old sister is suspected of the murder.
This was reported by the press service of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Samara Region on Telegram.
What happened
According to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the region, on the evening of October 8, the bodies of a two-year-old and a five-year-old girl with multiple stab wounds to the torso and neck were found in an apartment in the Komsomolsky District of Tolyatti.
A criminal case has been opened under paragraphs “a” and “b” of Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder of two minors).
The 13-year-old sister of the deceased is being checked for involvement in the crime; she was placed in a psychiatric hospital for a psychological and psychiatric examination.
The investigation is under the control of the central office of the department.
MIA Rossiya Segodnya, citing a source in the security forces, reports that the suspect has confessed.
She confirmed the fact that she did it, the source said.
The agency also writes that at the time of the murder, the parents were being questioned in another case – about illegal entry into a home.
The girls' mother filed a complaint against her cohabitant. He beat her and cheated on her, but they later made peace and began living together again.
The 13-year-old daughter stayed with the children during the interrogation. The girls' bodies were found by their 10-year-old sister.
There were 5 children in the family: girls aged 10, 13 and 18 from the first cohabitant, 2 and 5 years old from the second, with whom the mother lived.