By Dave Andrusko

Alena Itapova, 19, nicknamed ‘Monster Mum’ by the Russian media for the death by starvation of her five-month-old baby girl, clearly doesn’t think through the consequences of her actions—in that instance, leaving her baby alone in her apartment for two weeks while she partied.

Last September the court refused her lawyers’ request that the charge be reduced from murder of a minor with cruelty to causing death by negligence and sentenced Itapova to a minimum of ten years at hard labor. So it would appear that the court took what Itapova did to her child a great deal more seriously than she did.

And clearly she didn’t think through the consequences of appealing her sentence on the grounds that it was “her parents’ fault for not teaching her how to look after children,” according to Laurie Hanna of the Daily Mail.

Instead of reducing her sentence, an upper court in St. Petersburg, Russia, looked at her attempt to shift the blame and increased her sentence by another two-and-a-half years.

At her 2014 trial, Itapova admitted to leaving her baby alone in her apartment while she disappeared for a fortnight. She told the court that when she returned, she found her infant daughter dead.

At her sentencing in September 2014, Itapova said, “I really regret what I did,” the Mirror reported. “I did not want that to happen. I realise what I have done,” a far cry from what she said when she made her appeal.

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