Solved Murders - True Crime Stories - The Abandoned Childhood of Cristian Mijangos Hunger, Neglect and the Search for Justice PART1 #67

Episode Date: December 14, 2025

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The case of Christian Mahongos, a child lost in silence. Sometimes the worst tragedies are the ones that unfold quietly, behind closed doors, while the world just keeps moving. That was the story of Christian Omar Mahongos Sidelvich, a little boy whose life barely had time to begin before it was cut short. His story shook Mexico not only because of how heartbreaking it was, but because it exposed the cracks in family responsibility, social protection, and justice. Let's rewind and walk through this slowly, because this case deserves more than a headline. It deserves to be told in full, no matter how painful. The family nobody was watching. Christian was born in 2018, in Mexico, the child of two very different worlds.

His mother, Olga I.D. Levich, came from Russia. seems to know exactly how she ended up in Mexico, what brought her there, or what her life looked like before she crossed paths with Christian's father. His dad was Marco Antonio Mahongos Velasco, a Mexican man, a lawyer by profession. The details of their romance are blurry. No love letters, no fairy tale. All we know is that around the time Christian was born, Olga was about 28 years old, and Marco was in his mid-30s. Whatever brought them together didn't last long enough to give Christian a stable childhood. From the outside, their lives might have seemed ordinary.

Just another couple with a baby, living in Mexico City. But as the years ticked by, trouble began to surface. And in this era of social media, trouble rarely stays hidden. Olga's own post started to show signs of a storm. She complained online that she was raising Christian alone, without financial or emotional support from Marco. She vented about days when there wasn't enough food, when she and her son went hungry. Her words were raw, written in Russian, sometimes desperate.

Despite her complaints, none of this made headlines. Nobody paid attention, at least, not until Christian's situation became impossible to ignore. Hunger in childhood Here's the part that twists the knife, Christian's father, Marco, wasn't poor. He had the means to help, the ability to provide. He wasn't some unemployed man struggling on the margins. He was a lawyer, someone with resources, someone with knowledge of the system. And yet, he didn't contribute to Christian's basic needs.

So while Marco lived his life, little Christian was living a different one. He knew the feeling of hunger, not just being peckish before dinner, but real hunger, the kind that gnaws at you, that makes you cry until you're too weak to cry anymore. He knew what it felt like to open the fridge and find nothing. He knew what it was to ask for food and get told there wasn't any. Hunger became his shadow. Abandonment his companion. The boy's short life was marked by neglect, and nobody stepped in.

The Day Everything Changed The case exploded in January 2025, when a well-known Mexican journalist, Carlos Jimenez, published a video that nobody could watch without feeling sick. He's famous for breaking shocking stories, and this one was no exception. The video itself had been recorded on December 30, 2024, but it didn't reach the public until early January. What it showed was heartbreaking, police officers entering a small apartment. Inside, they found Christian, lying in a bed, covered in layers of blankets. He was skin and bones, so thin it hurt just to look at him. His face was pale, his eyes dull, his body too weak to even sit up.

There was a woman in the apartment, Olga. She was trying to speak with the police, but there was a language barrier. She asked if they could at least talk to her in English, but the officers were too focused on what was right in front of them, a child at death's door. For them, the priority was clear. They rushed Christian to the hospital immediately, leaving Olga behind with the intention of coming back to question her later. A battle already lost. Christian was taken to the emergency room of a children's hospital. Doctors did what they could, but their faces said it all, his condition.

was critical. He was suffering from severe malnutrition, the kind that doctors know is often irreversible. They tried everything, for fluids, nutrition support, emergency care. But it was too late. Christian's tiny body couldn't fight anymore. On December 31st, 2024, just hours before the new year began, Christian took his last breath. He was only six years old. And just like that, a little life was gone. The Vanishing Mother When police returned to the apartment in Colonia Insigentes Mixcoac, in the Benito Juarez Borough of Mexico City, Olga was gone.

Vanished. No trace left behind. From that moment, she became a ghost. Some said she fled in panic. Others accused her of abandoning her son even in death. The media pounced on her absence. Headlines painted her as the villain, an escort mother who left her son for days while she worked with clients. Reporters described the apartment as a disaster zone, with utilities cut off and no food in sight.

They labeled her negligent, careless, unfit. For a while, all the anger fell squarely on Olga's shoulders. She became the face of failure. Another side of the story But then, something shifted. Human rights organizations and feminist groups began digging into the case. They asked questions the tabloids ignored. What about Marco, the father?

Why wasn't anyone talking about him? Neighbors said they never saw Marco visiting, never saw him bringing food or money. He didn't show up with groceries, didn't check him. in on his son. His absence was total. And when you look at international treaties and Mexican law, every child has the right not just to food, but to affection, care, and presence from both parents. The activists unearthed Olga's old social media posts, written in Russian. Translated into Spanish, they revealed a woman at the end of her rope. She wrote that she had raised Christian alone, that she had begged Marco for help, that he ignored her.

She even accused him of threatening her, of pressuring her emotionally, maybe even physically. In one of her last posts, she confessed she hadn't eaten in two days. Christian, she said, had survived that morning on nothing but a single tortilla. A single tortilla, that was his meal. A nation reacts. When those details surfaced, the public narrative grew more complicated. Yes, Olga had flaws. Yes, she might have left Christian alone at times. But could she really be the only one responsible? Didn't Marco's absence weigh just as heavily? The debate grew fierce. Some insisted Olga was guilty, that no mother should ever let her child suffer like that. Others argued she was a victim too, an immigrant woman alone in a foreign country, raising a child without support, facing Humber herself.

And then there was Christian, caught in the middle of it all, voiceless, powerless. Justice in question. So, what was Mexico's justice system doing about this? That's the question everyone wanted answered. Police opened an investigation, but critics said it was moving too slowly. The outrage wasn't just about Christian anymore, it was about all the children like him who slipped through the cracks, unseen until it's too late. Was this a failure of one family, or of the entire system?

The bigger picture. Christian's story isn't isolated. Across Mexico and the world, thousands of children face neglect, poverty, and abandonment every day. Some are caught in custody battles, some are hidden behind closed doors, and some are betrayed by the very people who should protect them. But Christian's death hit a nerve because it was so visible. There was video.

There were posts. There were neighbors. There was proof that people knew something was wrong, and yet nothing changed. The weight of silence. If you stop for a second and think about it, the saddest part isn't just Christian's death. It's the silence that came before. The cries that went unheard, the empty fridge, the endless nights, the hunger pangs. For six years, this little boy lived a life that most adults would find unbearable.

And nobody stepped in, not his father, not the state, not society. Only when it was too late did people start shouting. To be continued. Because Christian's story doesn't end here. The investigation is still open. Olga is still missing. Marco's role is still being debated. Activists are still demanding accountability.

And the public is still torn between blame and empathy, anger and sorrow. One thing is certain, Christians' short life forced Mexico to look in the mirror. And what it saw wasn't pretty. To be continued.