Viktoria Kuznetsova

Viktoria Kuznetsova is a Russian mother who, aged 17, killed her own baby son when he was nine months old.

Egor Kuznetsova had been given to an orphanage by his teenage mother Viktoria when he was one month old, but she received him back when he was seven months old. Kuznetsova left Egor alone in his pram in the family's home in Rostov, Russia to go out partying while her husband was performing mandatory military service. Claiming an aunt was looking after the baby, she left him in the pram on September 5, 2017; he was found dead by police on September 13. Police, who were tipped off by suspicious neighbours, were told by Kuznetsova she did not want to carry on looking after Egor. She had planned to kill Egor ahead of starting college and complained he restricted her lifestyle; she spent the week he was dying partying and staying in different college dorms, returning once to provide for her dog but not for Egor. She also posted cheerful messages on Vk.com throughout the incident.

In January 2018 she was jailed for six and a half years, a sentence that provoked public criticism in Russia. She had no prior crimes and her husband moved for divorce.