The 20-year old mother Vladislava Podchapko left her children when she abandoned them in the Ukrainian capital, central Kiev, to be with her lover. Her youngest child, Daniil, a 23-month old boy, starved to death after six days and his two-year old sister, Anna, remained alone in the flat with the boy's body for another three days, the Daily Mail reported.
Anna was rushed to the nearest hospital on the point of death from hunger and is miraculously expected to survive. According to a doctor involved in her treatment, the girl was exhausted and very weak. She was immediately taken into the hospital where they started intravenous feeding. "She's better now and it's safe to say that she will live", she added. They have started her on little amounts of solid food.
Podchapko, who is suspected to be either pregnant by her lover or already delivered her third child, said to the police that she didn't know that her children could die. She has been detained already and faces up to eight years imprisonment for child neglect. The confused and frightened children had tried to escape from the flat, tearing and pulling at the front door. Some neighbors heard the children crying, and there were unconfirmed statements they had called the police officials, who failed to respond.
The stranded little ones haven't been helped, and are believed to have been rescued when the officers finally arrived and their mother returned. The social media account of Podchapko is full of her children's pictures from before the incident, showing her love to them in form of sweet messages, Mirror reported.
On her social media page, people commented that she should be charged with death penalty for neglecting her children. Many people have expressed how disgusted they were on her Facebook profile calling her "evil", "animal" and "sadist".
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