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Show Russian Court Approves Mother's Slaying Child Moscow. Possible official approval of the execution of hopelessly diseased dis-eased Infants at birth, after the manner man-ner of the Spartan state, Is forecast by a precedent set by the Moscow court of appeals. Olgn Degtarova strangeld her sVx-wecks-old baby after she had found It was infected with a chronic disease which would render It insane, but would not cause its death for many years. She was tried and sentenced to eight years' imprisonment In the lower court. She appealed. The higher court freed the woman, declaring declar-ing she bad acted according to her best Judgment of the most beneficial thing for her baby. The court declared de-clared she had done the best thing for society. |