11-Month-Old Baby Tossed Into An Oven And Burned Alive By His Drunk Grandparents

11-Month-Old Baby Tossed Into An Oven And Burned Alive By His Drunk Grandparents

An 11-month-old baby has died after being thrown in an oven by his grandparents and abandoned there to be burned alive.

Baby Maxim Sagalakov was left by his mother Viktoria, 20, in the care
of her parents in the Khakassia district of Russia. When she returned
home, she was shocked to find her child’s charred remains in the stove
of the family’s house in Kharoy village.

The exact cause of death is still under forensic investigation but it
is believed the child died from incineration after being burned alive
on Tuesday.

A neighbour said the grandfather had been out and got drunk on vodka. When he returned the child was thrown into the stove.

A statement from the regional Investigative Committee in charge of probing serious crime reads:

The grandparents were drunk and killed the baby.

A family member found the body of the boy badly damaged by the high temperature inside the stove.

The grandmother, 42, and grandfather, 47, who’s surname is
Miyagashev, have both been arrested and a criminal investigation has
been launched into the ‘deliberate murder of a helpless minor’, said law
enforcement sources. If convicted, they face a life sentence.

Mourning her son, mother Viktoria Sagalakova, 20, left an emotional message on social media.

She wrote: 

Rest in peace, my beloved son. My dear little son. My pain does not ease even for a minute.

How will I cope with it that you are not with me? I can’t hug you. Only your photograph is here with your kind and tender look.

I look at your picture and you are smiling to me. I miss you so much my son.

Please come to see me just for one second. Come to see me in my
dreams. I know that you see everything now because you are flying so
high.

A relative and neighbour Natalia Sagatayeva said the grandparents had
often cared for the child while the mother was away and looked after
him well.

She said:

I just can’t believe this. I am still shocked. They took good care of
the boy, fed him. My children played with him. How could it happen?