A toddler has died after she climbed into a pan of boiling water and was taken by her medical student mother to unqualified traditional healers. Trainee doctor Darina Gorova, 18, took daughter Lesya to traditional Ukrainian healers who administered natural ointments rather than rushing her to hospital. Lesya suffered horrific burned to her abdomen, back, and bottom after getting into a pan of boiling water her mother was using to cook chicken. Police said Darina, from Bakhmach, Ukraine, had failed to properly secure the pan of boiling water she intended to use to a cook a chicken the family had slaughtered. Police are investigating Darina Gorova, 18, and her husband Ivan Gorov, 29, for pre-meditated murder following the incident.

Source: Daily Mail August 13, 2021 11:03 UTC