The Court of Appeals has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for killing an eight-month-old boy in the Kirovohrad region. This was announced by Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko.
According to him, the man systematically abused the child: he beat him, threw him, extinguished cigarette butts on his skin, and overturned the stroller with the baby. One day, while intoxicated, he hit the boy’s head against the wall several times. The child died that same day.
“8 months. That’s how long a boy from Kirovohrad lived, who was killed by his stepfather. He didn’t have time to take his first step. He didn’t have time to say his first word. The child spent the last month of his life in unbearable torment,” Kravchenko noted.
As the examination showed, it was “not a one-time violence, but prolonged torture.” The baby’s body was found to have numerous burns, hematomas, and abrasions.
Kravchenko also reported that the accused had not admitted his guilt for years and had tried to shift the responsibility onto the child’s mother.
Initially, the first instance court sentenced him to 15 years in prison. The prosecutor’s office appealed this decision, and eventually the appeals court overturned the sentence, finding it too lenient, and sentenced him to life imprisonment.
