

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.
Svetlana Bukharina, 32, shared eerie details of her bitter custody battle for the first time since her estranged husband Dmitriy Kanarikov pushed their son, Kirill off of a NYC skyscraper before jumping to his own death on Dec. 22. The devastated mom revealed that her husband had previously threatened her that he would “take the child away,” if he could not share custody, and his horrific crime was “his sick way” of doing just that.
Dmitriy Kanarikov, 35, posted a shocking and revealing message to his Facebook page just three months before he was driven to desperation and threw his son Kirill, 3, from the roof of a NYC skyscraper on Dec. 22. The Brooklyn man was in the middle of a bitter custody battle with his estranged wife, Svetlana Bukharina, and his heartbreaking Sept. 2013 status update gives insight into the emotional turmoil he was going through for months.
Dmitriy Kanarikov, 35, threw his little boy, Kirill, 3, off the roof of a NYC skyscraper on Dec. 22, then jumped himself, after losing custody of the child to his estranged wife, Svetlana Bukharina. Kanarikov was supposed to have been meeting his estranged wife to hand over the child, when he instead went to the top of a friend’s apartment in NYC’s Upper West Side. There, the angry father was spotted by security cameras, leading his son Kirill to his death.
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