The criminal case against the mentally unfit man from the Urals who threw his one-year-old daughter from the fifth floor has been closed.

      The Sverdlovsk Regional Court has brought to a close the criminal case of a previously convicted Yekaterinburg resident who in December 2023 threw his one-year-old daughter into a snowdrift beneath the windows of a five-story building on Posadskaya Street. The child's body was accidentally discovered by police officers several days later.

      The crime was committed on December 30, 2023, on Posadskaya Street in Yekaterinburg. As the court found, 32-year-old Yekaterinburg resident Ilya Ivanov, who had been convicted multiple times before, threw his one-year-old daughter from a fifth-floor balcony. The girl died at the scene from her injuries.

      He was declared legally insane as early as December of last year. On Monday, October 6, the Sverdlovsk Regional Court sent Ivanov for treatment to a medical institution providing psychiatric care in a specialized inpatient setting with intensive supervision.

      “In addition to the murder, the court found proven two other crimes committed by Ivanov. He extorted more than 100,000 rubles from his wife, which he told her to take from the cash register at the store where she worked. In addition, Ivanov is accused of a violent robbery against an acquaintance with the aim of stealing money, a television and computer equipment totaling more than 170,000 rubles,” the joint press service of the courts of the Sverdlovsk Region said.

      The court’s ruling will enter into force in 15 days unless appealed by the parties.

      “Medical measures are not punishment; the choice of such a measure is not determined by the gravity of the offense, but is related to the person’s mental state and their dangerousness to themselves and others,” the court explained. “The purposes of applying compulsory medical measures are the cure of individuals or the improvement of their mental condition, as well as the prevention of them committing new criminal acts.”