An 8-year-old boy reportedly died after police said he jumped from an apartment building while attempting to escape his allegedly abusive parents.
After coming home from school that day, his parents were upset that he ripped his clothes and started beating him, the report noted.
A neighbor was quoted by the paper as saying that they heard Anton’s parents shouting at him. Shortly later, the boy fell from a window.
Zhanna, a woman who lives downstairs from the family, said she heard the abuse followed by silence.
“Several seconds passed and there was that horrific thud when a body hits the ground,” she said.

The woman then said, “I looked out of my kitchen window and saw the boy lying below. I called an ambulance and the police.”
The Mail quoted another neighbor, Andrey, as saying: “I saw the family going upstairs to their flat. Ten minutes later the boy was lying on the ground as his parents were racing downstairs in the street.”
Paramedics came and pronounced Anton dead at the scene.
The parents of the boy confessed to beating their son on the day he died. They also admitted to beating the child on a regular basis, according to the report.
The couple, after they were interviewed by police, fled their rented apartment. Officials are now trying to track their whereabouts.
If found guilty, the parents could face as many as five years in prison.
Facts About Crime in the United States
Violent crime in the United States has fallen sharply over the past 25 years, according to both the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) (pdf).While the overall rate of violent crime has seen a steady downward drop since its peak in the 1990s, there have been several upticks that bucked the trend. Between 2014 and 2016, the murder rate increased by more than 20 percent, to 5.4 per 100,000 residents, from 4.4, according to an Epoch Times analysis of FBI data. The last two-year period that the rate soared so quickly was between 1966 and 1968.