A Russian mother has been detained by police for allegedly pouring gasoline into the mouth of her eight-year-old son then setting him on fire.
The boy died in hospital in Kursk, Russia after suffering horrific 45 per cent burns.
Anastasia Baulina, 31, a cashier, was furious that her son Andrey ‘betrayed’ her by telling his stepfather that she had been visited by her alleged lover, say reports.
Anastasia Baulina, 31, a cashier (pictured with her eight-year-old son Andrey), has been detained for allegedly pouring gasoline into the mouth of her son, then setting him on fire
She had a ‘quarrel’ with her son and took him into the courtyard, dousing him in fuel from a canister, then set the boy on fire, it is alleged.
One report said she poured the fuel into the terrified boy’s mouth before using a lighter and telling him: ‘Let’s see how it will burn.’
His sister Natasha, 12, said: ‘(The fuel) was pouring into his mouth, as he was crying.’
As the girl fled in terror, the mother and stepfather Pavel Baulin, 35, a farmworker, put out the flames and called an ambulance.
But the boy was critically injured, and he died two days later from the severe burns.
A murder investigation was opened and the woman – from Zheleznogorsk district – was detained.
Baulina had a ‘quarrel’ with her son Andrey and took him into the courtyard, dousing him in fuel from a canister, then set the boy on fire, it is alleged. Pictured: The Baulin’s family home
Neighbour Nina Chetverikova told Life: ‘I saw her at the bus stop. She had a quarrel with her husband. It seems she took it out on her children.’
Baulina faces up to 20 years in jail if convicted.
A criminal investigation was also opened into why the boy was allowed back into his mother’s care after he was earlier removed from her to an orphanage.
A criminal investigation has also been opened into why the boy (left) was allowed back into his mother’s (centre) care after he was earlier removed from her to an orphanage
Anastasia Baulina, 31 (pictured right)), a cashier, was furious that her son Andrey (left) ‘betrayed’ her by telling his stepfather that she had been visited by her alleged lover, reports from Russia say.
