17-Year-Old Woman Sentenced After Baby Was Starved to Death

17-Year-Old Woman Sentenced After Baby Was Starved to Death
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A 17-year-old mother who let her baby son starve to death in Russia so that she could hang out with friends was only sentenced to six and a half years.

Viktoria Kuznetsova of Rostov in western Russia, was arrested and charged with “murder of a minor or another person known to be in a helpless condition, committed with particular cruelty” after she locked her 9-month-old son, Egor, alone with the intention of not returning for an extended period of time, according to a statement by a Russian investigation department.