One-year-old boy falls 150ft to his death from 14th floor of tower block after ‘climbing from his cot through an open window while his parents were drinking’ in Russia
- Timofei, 21 months, fell 150ft to his death from the 14th floor of a tower block
- Alexander and Taisiya Akimov, 21 and 23, found out when police rang doorbell
- Investigators said there was evidence couple from Moscow had been drinking
- They were detained on suspicion of causing death by neglicence
A boy aged 21 months fell 150ft to his death from a tower block after his parents put him in his cot by an open window ‘during a drinking session’.
Alexander and Taisiya Akimov, from Russian capital Moscow, found out their son Timofei had been killed when police rang their doorbell to say his body had been found after his fall.
He had climbed out of a 14th floor tower block window, say law enforcement.
The parents, aged 21 and 23, were detained on suspicion of causing death by negligence and could face up to two years jail, say reports.
Timofei (pictured right), aged 21 months, fell 150ft to his death from a tower block after his parents Alexander and Taisiya Akimov (left), from Moscow, Russia, put him in his cot by an open window ‘during a drinking session’
Alexander (pictured) and Taisiya found out their son Timofei had been killed when police rang their doorbell to say his body had been found after his fall
He had climbed out of a 14th floor tower block window, say law enforcement, which reports said was the third such case in one day
Investigators said there was evidence they had been drinking when their son climbed from his cot out of the open window.
The tragic case prompted the Russian Investigative Committee – which probes serious crimes – to warn parents about the risk to children in high-rise buildings.
This was the third such case in one day, said reports.
It came in a week when Vladimir Putin’s children’s ombudswoman Anna Kuznetsova revealed that 145 children died last year from 1,339 cases when they had fallen from open windows.
‘The problem of children falling out of windows… is our pain,’ she said.
Timofei’s body was found by passersby under the residential tower block on Marshal Zakharov’s Street.
Committee spokeswoman Yulia Ivanova said: ‘It has been established that the child’s mother…was in the apartment.’
The parents were suspected of locking their son in his cot while they drank alcohol.
The parents (pictured), aged 21 and 23, were detained on suspicion of causing death by negligence and could face up to two years jail, say reports
The parents were suspected of locking their son in his cot while they drank alcohol (pictured: the balcony)
‘Forensic investigators have examined the scene,’ she said.
The couple also had a baby daughter.
Kuznetsova said that in the last three years, 374 children have died falling from windows, and 2,947 were injured.
Committee spokeswoman Yulia Ivanova said that it has been established Timofei’s mother (centre, with Timofei, left, and the couple’s baby daughter, right) ‘was in the apartment’
The tragic case prompted the Russian Investigative Committee – which probes serious crimes – to warn parents about the risk to children in high-rise buildings (pictured: Timofei’s father Alexander)
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