A Ukrainian superyacht stewardess who was caught on doorbell camera beating up her three-year-old son has avoided a prison sentence.
Yulia Storozhuk, 29, became emotional Thursday as she accepted a plea deal she negotiated with the Miami-Dade District Attorney’s Office.
The mother was filmed by a neighbor’s Ring doorbell camera as she threw her defenseless child down the hallway and then kicked him multiple times.
“I am very sorry, I am a single mother and it was just one incident where my emotions got the better of me,” Storozhuk previously told the court through an interpreter. NBC defeated.
Her pleas appeared to satisfy Judge Carmen Carbarga, who sentenced her to three years’ probation.
‘Monster’ mother Yulia Storozhuk who was caught on doorbell camera beating her 3-year-old son avoids prison sentence
Storozhuk was filmed last year throwing and kicking her son down a hallway in their Florida home
Storozhuk avoided a prison sentence and must undergo a mental health evaluation and parenting courses.
Her son was covered in scratches and bruises after the attack last year and was placed with a foster family.
She told police she started hitting the boy because he wouldn’t listen to her.
In the video, Storozhuk is seen aggressively lifting her son and throwing him to the ground of their Sunny Isles apartment building.
The boy is thrown through the air and lands with a terrible thud on the hard floor.
Storozhuk became emotional as she accepted a plea deal Thursday that saw her sentenced to three years’ probation
She then kicks him down the hallway at least three times, before grabbing him by the collar and dragging and kicking him again.
Footage taken 40 minutes later shows her pushing the boy in the chest, sending him flying backwards and falling to the ground.
The shocking incident was reported to police by a concerned neighbor, who captured the attack on his Ring doorbell camera.
“How can a mother do this? I mean, she’s a monster,” a Miami-Dade police spokesman said at the time.
She previously told the court that she had let her emotions get the better of her and that the abuse had only happened once
Carbaga reviewed the footage and said the attack “warrants a prison sentence,” but she did take into account a psychologist’s recommendation to reunite mother and child.
Storozhuk was never allowed to physically punish her son again and was warned that she would end up in prison if she did not abide by the rule.
If she accepts the request, she risks deportation to her native Ukraine.