Friday, November 13, 2009

Man who ate his own mother

After reading the bloody title, don't you feel like reading on what is it all about?

Taken from: Myfoxillinois on Friday the 13th, 2009

A Russian man has been given a reduced sentence because the judge said "he needed to eat" after he killed and ate parts of his mother.

The Daily Mail reports that Sergey Gavrilov received a shorter jail sentence after confessing he was hungry and needed to eat his mom because he had spent all of his money on vodka and gambling. Russia's law usually assigns 15 years in jail for those who have committed crimes like Gavrilov's, but the convict will serve 14 years and three months.

The newspaper reports that Gavrilov killed his mother by hitting her head with a brick and strangling her after she refused to give him money to spend on alcohol. He put her body on the balcony at their home in southern Russia, and then went away for two days on a gambling and drinking binge.

He returned home hungry. With no food around, he started eating parts of his mother.

Police discovered the grisly scene when they were called to the home, suspecting he had stolen a cell phone.

If I am correct, Gav might be on drugs although he said that he had spent all his money on vodka and gambling. This might be the only reason why he would have the heart to kill his own mother.

I don't think the reason of refusing to give him money to spend and hence killing the mother is a good reason and much worst, returning home hungry with no food around and started eating parts of his mother?

WHAT IS THIS?!!?!

He even dared to say it like as if it is his mother's fault. Seriously, if the reason of "he needed to eat" is valid to reduce the sentence by 9 months, then everybody in Russia can go around the streets and start to steal food from the vendors and when they are caught, they just say, "I need to eat". With that reason, it is enough to be scot-free because the crime committed should be considered a minor one.

I had heard enough stories of parents killing/eating their own child or other's child but this is my first time hearing their own son killing the own mother. (he even get reduced sentence just by saying, "he needed to eat")

by Anonymous at 12:53 PM |