The mother who brutally killed her three-year-old son with her bare hands will be tried in Yekaterinburg.

      In Yekaterinburg, a 41-year-old native of Novouralsk, Natalya G., will be tried, accused of the brutal murder of her 3-year-old son. Her case will be heard by the Sverdlovsk Regional Court, possibly because of the unprecedented cruelty displayed by a parent.

      At the end of winter Natalya was abandoned by her husband — he returned to his homeland in Tajikistan. After that the woman began to feel animosity toward their only child and started to beat him brutally, KP-Yekaterinburg learned.

      Between April 5 and 6 she caused him a closed fracture of the femur and inflicted injuries to the head and face, which investigators and forensic medical experts later described as "injuries that caused severe prolonged pain and suffering" and classified as moderate bodily harm.

      Natalya only called an ambulance for the child a day later at the insistence of an acquaintance who had come to visit her at the apartment on Sirenevy Boulevard where the woman had been living since the divorce.

      While the boy was being treated in hospital, the mother apparently decided to carry out her plan to kill the child. When he returned home, she again beat him savagely, after which she lifted her son and forcefully threw him onto the floor. As a result she beat the toddler to death.

      According to the expert's conclusion, the accused did not and does not currently suffer from any chronic mental disorder or other pathological mental condition that would have deprived her of the ability to understand the factual nature and social danger of her actions and to control them.

      The woman is charged under subparagraphs "v" and "d" of part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder of a minor committed with particular cruelty), subparagraph "v" of part 2 of Article 112 of the Criminal Code (intentional infliction of moderate bodily harm on a minor, with particular cruelty and torment for the victim), and Article 156 of the Criminal Code (failure to properly perform duties in raising a minor when this act is combined with cruel treatment of the minor).

      The accused has denied the charges. The criminal case will be sent to the Sverdlovsk Regional Court for trial on the merits.