WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENTS. Monster parents Anastasia Maiboroda, 24, and her husband Yakov, 34, stashed the remains of eight-month-old Valeria in their freezer
A mum, who along with her husband killed their baby daughter, before cutting her body up with a meat grinder, wants to fight in Ukraine for Putin in a bid to escape prison.
Under the Russian leader’s new law convicted criminals can receive a pardon if they fight for their country.
Monster parents Anastasia Maiboroda, 24, and her husband Yakov, 34, stashed the remains of eight-month-old Valeria in their freezer. The tot had been knifed to death, before being cut up, and stuffed into 13 plastic bags.
Maiboroda was a final year medical student trainee to become a paediatrician. She initially told police the baby had been kidnapped.
Both her and her husband blamed each other for the murder in court for the murder. They were both found guilty. She was jailed for 13 years in a strict regime penal colony in Rostov-on-Don, and her husband for 15 years.
She has now applied to go to the war – which under Russia’s new laws signed by Vladimir Putin which could see her convictions wiped with a pardon.
The judicial authorities and defence ministry will consider her request. Her lawyer Tamara Kutsenko said Anastasia could serve as a frontline medic.
In her final court statement, she said: “I could not protect my daughter from [my husband], the killer.
“And this is my fault. But I did not kill my daughter. I admit my guilt in helping to hide the traces of the crime that Yakov committed…I would like to declare my desire to be useful to society, namely, to take part in military operations in the [war] zone.”
She claimed she had been subject to “manipulation and abuse by Yakov”, which the court rejected. Sitting in the same glass cage in court, Yakov claimed his wife was entirely responsible for the baby’s death.
He has not applied to fight for Putin, because he was reportedly “scared”, and said: “I am accused of a terrible crime, the murder of my own daughter.
“You will make decisions not based on evidence, but on opinions, or someone’s position. There is no evidence that the murder took place between 4pm and 6pm [when I was there].
“There is no other evidence that points to my involvement. I did not kill my daughter. I did not commit this terrible crime.
“As for my fate, it has already been destroyed, of course. But the most important thing I ask for is to punish the murderer – [my wife].”
Russians have been outraged over her application to go to war, which could lead to a pardon. “Some crimes should not be forgiven,” said one comment. “There is no forgiveness for this,” said another.
