Parents from Hell: A 12-Year-Old Escapes Months of Torture

In Russia’s Kemerovo region, a 12-year-old boy escapes from his own home after months of brutal abuse by his mother and her partner. With broken legs, fractured ribs, and a face slashed with a knife, the child walks into the freezing night and hides in a supermarket to survive. This episode of From Russia with Fear tells the story of systematic torture, parental cruelty, and a crime investigators describe as an attempted murder — and asks how such violence remained invisible for so long.