A mum has avoided jail after her eight-month-old twins died while she tried to put them to sleep. Valeria Khakimova and her brother Kirill Khakimov were teething and crying and their mum Ludmila Khakimova could not calm them down, according to reports.
The mum-of-four was drinking alcohol alone and the babies' crying was irritating her, a court heard. She reportedly decided 'to muffle the noise' and covered the twins with a thick blanket 'thinking it would help them to fall asleep'.
After that she continued her drinking party before going to sleep late at night. When Khakimova, 26, woke up in the morning and checked on the twins they were not breathing.
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