A 14-year-old Russian girl named Viktoria recently died of malnutrition. Her mother had convinced her that she had cancer and diabetes, and that she should only eat twice a week.
The story is cold in the back. 14-year-old Viktoria Demiyanova from the city of Krasnokamsk, Russia recently died of malnutrition. The teenager had stopped eating because she thought she had cancer and diabetes. According to the Daily Mail, it is Viktoria’s mother, Oksana Demiyanova, who allegedly told her daughter that she was seriously ill and that she only had to feed twice a week.
Interviewed by a local newspaper, Viktoria’s classmates say they started noticing the teenager “seriously losing weight” at the end of the school year in May. “She had skin on her bones”, testifies one of them. According to the young girl, Viktoria had warned her friends that she was suffering from cancer and diabetes. “That’s what his mother made him believe,” explains another of her comrades.
Investigating detectives insist that no real medical diagnosis was made and that, apart from severe malnutrition, Viktoria was in perfect health. Faced with these accusations, Oksana Demiyanova denies having starved her daughter and claims simply urging her daughter to lose weight, as a result of rreflections on her physique that she would have heard at school. “Then it was Viktoria who no longer wanted to eat. I persuaded her to eat, but she did not listen to me, ”assured the mother to the police, who were not convinced.
Shortly before her death, Viktoria weighed only 30kg. “Viktoria couldn’t even speak because she didn’t have enough strength. It’s just horrible,” laments Anna Vechtomova, mother of a classmate from Viktoria. Oksana Demiyanova is so far accused of infanticide.
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