--- title: Moscow Nanny Admits to Decapitating 4-Year-Old Child description: A nanny in Russia admitted in court that she beheaded a four-year-old girl in her care. canonical: https://time.com/4245374/russian-nanny-guilty-decapitates-child/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-02T21:11:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T15:33:49.462Z article:section: World og:title: Moscow Nanny Admits to Decapitating 4-Year-Old Child og:description: A nanny in Russia admitted in court that she beheaded a girl in her care og:url: https://time.com/4245374/russian-nanny-guilty-decapitates-child/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf5fb63383ebcae24/69888007524fc0e923df701c/gulchehra-bobokulova.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Nanny suspected of murdering a child in her care attends court hearing in Moscow og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Moscow Nanny Admits to Decapitating 4-Year-Old Child twitter:description: A nanny in Russia admitted in court that she beheaded a girl in her care twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf5fb63383ebcae24/69888007524fc0e923df701c/gulchehra-bobokulova.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Moscow Nanny Admits to Decapitating 4-Year-Old Child by [Daniel White](/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Mar 2, 2016 9:11 PM CUT  Gulchekhra Bobokulova attends a court hearing in Moscow, Russia, on March 2, 2016. Gulchekhra Bobokulova attends a court hearing in Moscow, Russia, on March 2, 2016.Maxim Shemetov/Reuters by [Daniel White](/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Mar 2, 2016 9:11 PM CUT A nanny in Russia [admitted in court](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35705924 "undefined") Wednesday that she beheaded a 4-year-old girl in her care. Officials said Gulchekhra Bobokulova, 38, had suffered from mental health problems, according to the BBC. Bobokulova was arrested Monday [when she was found carrying the child’s severed head outside of a Moscow train station](http://time.com/4241191/moscow-arrest-beheading/ "undefined"). When asked in court on Wednesday if she was guilty, she said, “yes.” Bobokulova, the child’s nanny, is believed to have waited for the girl’s parents to leave the home before killing her and setting the apartment on fire, according to BBC. Surveillance footage captured Bobokulova walking near a metro station with the head in her hands. \[[_BBC_](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35705924 "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4245374/russian-nanny-guilty-decapitates-child/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4245374/russian-nanny-guilty-decapitates-child/"},"headline":"Moscow Nanny Admits to Decapitating 4-Year-Old Child","datePublished":"2016-03-02T21:11:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T15:33:49.462Z","description":"Asked if she was guilty, she said, \"yes\"","url":"https://time.com/4245374/russian-nanny-guilty-decapitates-child/","keywords":["russia","Crime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf5fb63383ebcae24/69888007524fc0e923df701c/gulchehra-bobokulova.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel White","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-white/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf5fb63383ebcae24/69888007524fc0e923df701c/gulchehra-bobokulova.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Nanny suspected of murdering a child in her care attends court hearing in Moscow","caption":"Nanny suspected of murdering a child in her care attends court hearing in Moscow","creditText":"Maxim Shemetov/Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/russia/","name":"russia"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4245374/russian-nanny-guilty-decapitates-child/","name":"Moscow Nanny Admits to Decapitating 4-Year-Old Child"}}]}] ```