Mother Of Boy, 3, Thrown Off Roof: Anguished At Toddler’s Funeral
Svetlana Bukharina was understandably heartbroken at her son Kirill’s funeral, openly grieving after her son was thrown off a NYC high-rise by her estranged husband. The grieving mom said her last goodbye to her toddler by planting a kiss on his forehead before closing the casket at the ceremony.
Svetlana Bukharina was overcome with emotion on Dec. 26 when she had to bury her only son, Kirill, 3. The boy killed by his father, Dmitriy Kanarikov, when he threw the boy off the roof of a city skyscraper before jumping to his own death on Dec. 22. The funeral ceremony took place at Synod Cathedral of the Mother of the Sign, a Russian Orthodox cathedral in New York City — the same church that Svetlana and Dmitiry had married at in 2009.