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Ukrainian granny-cultist kills her grandson to send him to paradise

Kiev, August 7, Interfax - 66-year old resident of Kiev conducted a ritual murder of her 9-year-old grandson.

She hit the boy with an iron and completed the crime with a rope, Ukrainian issue of Komsomolskaya Pravda daily writes on Thursday.

Then a woman carried a boy to the sitting room where she had everything prepared beforehand including candles and a brochure with "a prayer to enter paradise" given to her by Jehovah's Witnesses.

Neighbors told that on the eve of murdering her grandson she spoke about religion and soon apocalypses. Jehovah's witnesses convinced the woman the Lord would come on 2014 and raise the dead, then all the righteous will go to paradise and take their children with them.

The Kiev Prosecutor's office initiated a criminal case on the incident. Forensic psychiatric expert examination acknowledged the woman was criminally insane.

"I was shocked and don't remember the funerals. If I didn't believe in God, I would have gone mad," the boy's mother Yelena Ponomarenko, 36, said.

According to Yelena, her mother has always had peculiar ways. She tried to break the daughter's marriage. She threw knives and saucepans in the kitchen and insulted them during the day, and at night she broke in the couple's bedroom crying and cursing herself, her daughter and the entire world.

After her son's death, Yelena retired to the Pochayev Laura for several months to overcome the tragedy.

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