Mother of kid thrown from roof: This was husband's 'sick way' to take child

Svetlana Kanarikov, the mother of the 3-year-old boy who died with his father in a plunge from an Upper West Side high-rise, said Tuesday the murder was her estranged husband’s “sick way to take Kirill away from me.”

The father, 35-year-old Dmitriy Kanarikov of Brooklyn, threw his son from the South Park Tower on West 60th Street and then jumped to his death, according to police. The father died at the scene and Kirill was pronounced dead at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital.

“This was his sick way to take Kirill away from me,” Kanarikov said in a statement through her lawyer. “He planned it before the visit, and probably after the judge ordered him to pay child support.”

The couple was in a custody battle over Kirill and Svetlana Kanarikov was awarded child support and temporary custody Dec. 18. She said she had been nervous about her husband’s unsupervised visits with her son, though she said he was never violent with the child and that their Skype conversations went well.

Kanarikov’s attorney, Alla Roytberg, declined further comment, though she called this an “unspeakable tragedy” for the mother.

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