Nanny who allegedly beheaded child says it was revenge for Putin bombing Muslims

The nanny who allegedly murdered a 4-year-old girl and then paraded through Moscow with her severed head has said she murdered the child to avenge the deaths of Muslims in Syria killed by Russian airstrikes. Bobokulova has been in the custody of Russian law enforcement since her arrest on Monday and appeared in court in Moscow on Wednesday. She is seen in the video wearing the same black and blue clothes she had during her court appearance, when she reportedly told a reporter that "Allah ordered" her to kill.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in Moscow on Monday that her remarks should be regarded as those of someone who is mentally unwell, Reuters reported.
"You need to regard anything that such a deranged woman says accordingly," Peskov said.
Russian state TV channels, typically known for broadcasting sensational and often gory stories, have chosen not to report on the killing.
But Russian online news outlets have. In an interview with Gazeta.ru, the father of the murdered girl, named Nastya, says Bobokulova had never worked as a nanny before he hired her. He also said he did not recall her ever being devoutly religious and claimed his daughter was frightened by her.
The Gazeta.ru report also detailed Bobokulova's history and painted her as a mentally troubled divorced mother of three sons who had been in and out of psychiatric hospitals before coming to Moscow.
Bobokulova was wearing all black and waving the little girl's severed head while shouting in Russian "I'm a terrorist! I want your death!" before police detained her outside the Oktyabrskoe Pole metro station in northwest Moscow on Monday.
Police were criticized for taking more than 20 minutes to grab her, allowing time for several onlookers to film and upload disturbing videos of the incident.
Russian investigators said Bobokulova used a knife to decapitate the girl before setting fire to the family's apartment and fleeing the scene with the child's head.