The 38-year-old woman was working as a baby sitter, a source told RIA Novosti. Experts assume the suspect might have been under the influence of drugs.
Media reports earlier said that Gulchekhra Bobokulova had pleaded guilty of the heinous crime.
Москвичи несут цветы и игрушки к станции метро «Октябрьское поле» в память об убитом накануне ребенке pic.twitter.com/OU60LyOjeo
— Москва 24 (@infomoscow24) March 1, 2016
The baby's mother was taken by an ambulance to the hospital in an unconscious state.
Станция метро "Октябрьское поле". Москва скорбит. Москва в шоке… pic.twitter.com/z0X2pcOc0W
— Вадим Ковалёв (@VadimKovalev) 1 марта 2016 г.
The body of the child was found in a Moscow apartment where a fire was reported earlier Monday. Preliminary reports say that Bobokulova had spent the past year working for the family.
октябрьское поле pic.twitter.com/scw5CNl2mE
— п. никольская (@ykymykovna) March 1, 2016
The motive for the attack is still unknown. The nanny reportedly waited for the parents and an older child to leave and killed the 4-year-old baby before setting the apartment on fire.
Москвичи несут цветы и детские игрушки к станции метро «Октябрьское поле» https://t.co/pPJXEMdMtZ pic.twitter.com/9QT80rqvUN
— Мобильный репортер (@mreporter_ru) March 1, 2016
The tragedy with the child murdered by her nanny is not what should be reported in mass media, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday.
“This is probably too grotesque to show over the television and you know that mass media all around the world avoid showing videos of such tragic and monstrous occurrences and there are plenty of examples of this and this is how mass media show their civil position,” Peskov told journalists when asked why central Russian televisions decided not to fully cover the tragedy using video cuts.
Yulia Ivanova, senior assistant to the head of the Moscow Investigative Committee, said the woman was clearly mentally unstable and the investigators will carry out a psychiatric assessment to determine the state of her mental health.
