Mother says estranged husband killed son out of ‘sick’ spite

The mother of a 3-year-old boy thrown to his death by his father from a 52-story Manhattan apartment building says her estranged husband acted out of spite in a “sick way.”

Reportedly upset by a messy divorce, Dmitriy Kanarikov, 35, of Brooklyn threw his son Kirill from the rooftop of the South Park Tower at 124 W. 60th St. on Sunday. Kanarikov then jumped to his own death.

In a statement released Monday night, the mother, Svetlana Kanarikov, said the family was ripped apart after an incident of domestic abuse. Even though her husband had never done anything violent against their son, she said she was worried.

“He said he would take the child away and I will ‘shoot myself from grief,’” Kanarikov said. “This was his sick way to take Kirill away from me.”

The couple had been married four years and separated in August. Svetlana Kanarikov left their Brooklyn apartment and moved in with her family in Fair Lawn, N.J., enrolling her son in school. In addition to Kirill, Dmitriy Kanarikov had wanted their house and other property too, Svetlana Kanarikov said.

Dmitriy Kanarikov picked up Kirill at 10 a.m. Sunday at a Manhattan police precinct to spend time with him for the first time unsupervised. She said he had told his parents that he was taking the child to Grand Central Terminal but instead went to the building on the Upper West Side.

Officers responding to an emergency call found Kanarikov and the boy on the lower rooftops of two separate nearby buildings. The man was pronounced dead at the scene and Kirill was pronounced dead at a hospital, police said. A witness said the boy was wearing Christmas pajamas.

“Kirill was a very sweet, wonderful child, who was loved very much,” his mother said. “He will forever live on in my heart.”

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