Daily Mail
A five-year-old boy died from after his mother locked him in a stifling car for two hours while she went for a job interview.
When Olesya Yeletskova, 35, returned to her car in Stupino, near Moscow, she found her son Oleg Gusev dead.
The temperature was 24C (75.2F) and she had locked her Kia Cerato with the windows shut. The child was strapped in a car seat.
After finding her son dead, the distraught mother - who was seeking a job in a fibreglass factory - was hospitalised with a 'nervous breakdown', law enforcement sources said.
An unnamed witness said: 'I came to my shift and saw police and a woman in tears in the car park.
'It turned out she came to get a job at our company, and left her five-year-old son in a locked car.
'He choked and there was no-one to help him.
'The woman looked normal. Probably, she just did not think.'
Police have opened a criminal case into causing death by negligence. If convicted, the mother could face up to two years in jail.
A Russian law passed last year bans leaving children alone in a car.
Moscow region children's ombudsman Ksenia Mishonova said: 'The mother went to the factory for a job interview leaving the boy in a closed car.
'When she returned after two hours, the child no longer showed signs of life.
'The causes of death and all the circumstances of the incident are being clarified.'
The woman and her husband Alexey Gusev, 31, were seen as good parents.
'We have repeatedly told parents that it is dangerous to leave children in a car, even for a short time.
'Such unaccountable negligence of adults towards children leads, unfortunately, to tragedies.'
