In Chernihiv, a man under the influence of alcohol killed an 11-month-old son in front of a 2-year-old

child.

This was reported in the General Prosecutor's Office.

"Prosecutors in courts of all instances proved that a man, under the influence of alcohol, killed an 11-month-old son with particular cruelty. The convict inflicted 45 blows on the child's head, 13 in the chest and 2 in the stomach. He committed a particularly serious crime at his residence in in the presence of the eldest son, who turned 2 years old. During the trial, it was established that the man systematically abused alcoholic beverages, narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances," the report says.

The criminal court of cassation as part of the Supreme Court refused to satisfy the cassation appeals of the convict and his lawyer about the annulment of the verdicts of the Desnyan District Court of Chernihiv and the Chernihiv Court of Appeal.

The perpetrator was sentenced to life imprisonment.

We will remind you that a tragedy occurred in the Rivne region - 

a 10-year-old boy died under the wheels of a heavy truck.

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