Ukrainian prosecutors are questioning a 20-year-old mother after she allegedly left two toddlers in her flat for nine days, and one starved to death.<\/p>\n
A top Kiev official reported the case.<\/p>\n
The mother, Vladislava Podchapko, had gone to her partner’s flat, without leaving food at home, reports say.<\/p>\n
Her son Daniil, aged one year and 11 months, died on 3 December. His sister Anya, nearly three, remained in the Kiev flat with the dead body for three more days, until the mother returned.<\/p>\n
Ukrainians have expressed shock about the case on social media, and the details were given on Facebook by Mykola Kuleba, the Ukrainian presidential adviser on children’s rights.<\/p>\n
Anya is in intensive care in hospital, but her condition is improving, Mr Kuleba reports.<\/p>\n
Doctors have been trying to feed her – she had reportedly fainted from hunger in the flat. Her father and grandmother have visited her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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