I find this legitimately heartbreaking.
Earlier this week, Mock told you about a woman who was killed by hanging her entire body out of a car window to show off her naked breasts while on vacation. She hit a road sign and died of her injuries.
It was absolutely horrific. There’s more details and a link to the video here.
Whether you feel sorry for the woman or not is questionable…. but I am so saddened for this little boy.
He has been left without a mother in horrendous way that’s all over the internet and makes her look foolish A BEST…. and now, because of Russian laws, he may end up in an orphanage.
The 11-year-old son of a woman who died after being hit by a road sign while hanging out of a car window still does not know his mother is dead.
Glamorous Natalia Borodina, 35, died after flaunting her almost naked body out of the passenger window of a car during a holiday in the Dominican Republic.
The excruciating footage went viral, showing her writhing in the car and thrusting her upper body out of the vehicle.
But back in Russia, her ex-husband Alexandr Palagushkin, 37, an academic who had studied in London, is battling to be given custody of their son Ermak, 11, who – contrary to earlier reports – was not on vacation with his mother when she was killed.
The boy has not been told of his mother’s death.
The boy’s father is now fighting to keep him out of an orphanage:
Palagushkin, 37 said he and his father Boris Palagushkin, 58 – a rear admiral in Putin’s naval reserve – were now fighting to keep their child out of a grim Russia orphanage.
‘The childcare people have already called,’ Palagushkin told Ren TV.
‘It’s helpful that my father is a rear admiral.
‘They have already said: “Do you know the mother is dead? Why is the child not with the father?”
‘So, if I don’t take him now, they will get him.
‘And even with my father’s connections, it will take me time to get him out of some orphanage.’
I don’t claim to understand this… maybe he didn’t have any custody of the child? Or maybe Russia is just whack.
Despite how it might look, her family maintains she was a good mom.
Grieving friends of Ms Borodina – who lived in Cannes – called her a ‘caring daughter and good mother’ to her 11-year-old son.
Now the bereft family say they cannot afford the cost — reported to be £15,000 — of repatriating her body for burial in Russia, and admit Ms Borodina did not have insurance when she flew on holiday to the Dominican republic.
Natalia’s friend Elena Korolyova said the dead woman did everything she could for her family.
‘She helped her poor family with everything,’ she said. ‘Nobody else worked, only Natalia.
‘She wanted to get everything, she was hoping for a better future.’
Family friend Anzhelika Kling said: ‘Natalia has a sister Yulia who lives in Chelyabinsk region, as does her 80 years old mother.
‘Yulia is raising her own son and she also took care of Natalia’s 11-year-old son when she was away.
Anyway… that poor, poor little boy. I can’t even imagine the pain that’s in store for him.