Mother Starved Her Baby to Death and Threw Him in the Trash

In Kovrov, a 19-year-old mother starved her one-year-old son to death, then placed his body in a cardboard box and threw it into the trash. For weeks, no one noticed the child’s disappearance — not the neighbors, not the father, not even the grandmother. Investigators say Veronika Zhukova regularly abandoned her baby while she went out partying. Now she faces up to life in prison. A story of apathy, cruelty, and the complete collapse of family and social responsibility.