According to local news outlets, when the 14-year-old chiId, Anastasia, realized she is pregnant, she kept it to herself. Neither her parents nor her teachers knew that she was pregnant, which means the girl had no help when she gave birth to her baby. When the young girl discovered she is with a child, she was reportedly too scared to tell her parents about it and managed to keep it a secret until the baby was out. When the girl gave birth at their family home, she did it alone.
But having no guidance on what to do after, and terrified of her family finding out, the teen placed her infant in a plastic bag and kept him inside the freezer in their garage. Nobody saw her going to the garage with the infant because her father was out working in the garden and too busy to notice at the time. At night, Anastasia was uncomfortable and experienced heavy bleeding. Her mother “heard her moaning at night and thought her daughter was suffering from appendicitis,” Nadezhda Boltenko, who is part of the investigation.
Upon hearing her daughter’s screams, the mother called for an ambulance so that Anastasia could be taken to the hospital. It was in the ambulance when Anastasia finally told someone that she had given birth to a baby. While on the way to the hospital, she spoke to the paramedics and confessed that she had given birth and then hid the child in the freezer, hoping her parents would not find out. Unfortunately, by the time somebody got to the baby, it was too late and the newborn had frozen to death.
The incident spurred an investigation and KuIeshova, an official from the Russian Investigative Committee said that “all the circumstances of the infant’s death” will be looked into by the detectives on the case. As more details came out, it was discovered that the father of Anastasia’s baby was a 16-year-old boy. In the summer, Anastasia and the teenage boy had ended their relationship before the girl gave birth. It was also reported that a neighbor previously asked Anastasia’s mother if she was pregnant but the mother dismissed it, saying she had just gained some weight.
