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This is the shocking moment a Russian father dangled his screaming three-year-old son from a high-rise window ledge for more than two hours while threatening to drop him 150ft to his death to punish his wife for 'cheating'.
After a tense standoff with police and negotiations with his spouse, who claimed he had beaten her, Roman Terentyev, 34, freed his son Maksim and was detained by Russian national guards.
Maksim was 'on the brink of death' for two-and-a-half hours, said reports in the southern Russian city of Irkutsk.
The child was heard crying and telling his father on the 14th floor residential tower window ledge: 'I am scared, let me go.'
This is the shocking moment a Russian father dangled his screaming three-year-old son from a high-rise window ledge for more than two hours while threatening to drop him 150ft to his death to punish his wife for 'cheating'
The child was heard crying and telling his father on the 14th floor residential tower window ledge: 'I am scared, let me go'
Maksim, three, was held by his father on the balcony edge for more than two hours in a terrifying ordeal in Russia
Law enforcement psychologists were involved in the negotiations which
