Overview

• The Investigative Committee in Krasnodar Krai detained and charged the father of a three-year-old girl who disappeared from Kropotkin, stating he confessed to killing her.
• Investigators say the man took his daughter on September 19, killed her that evening, then falsely reported a kidnapping to mislead authorities.
• Volunteers from the search group Yug and police had searched for the child for three days, with alerts noting she required medical assistance.
• In Krasnoyarsk Krai, investigators completed the case against a mother from Kansk accused of killing her three children and sent materials to prosecutors for forwarding to court to consider compulsory medical measures.
• A court-ordered psychiatric evaluation diagnosed the Kansk suspect with a chronic mental disorder that investigators say deprived her of the ability to understand or control her actions; she remains in custody while related probes into preventive services and the children’s father continue.