Solved Murders - True Crime Stories - The Abandoned Childhood of Cristian Mijangos Hunger, Neglect and the Search for Justice PART2 #68

Episode Date: December 14, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Christian's Last Cry, a Story of Silence, Hunger, and Abandonment. When we talk about tragedies, we often think of disasters, wars, or sudden accidents. But sometimes the worst tragedies are slow, quiet, and hidden in plain sight, like the story of Christian Omar Mahongo Saitelvich, a six-year-old boy from Mexico whose life ended not with violence, but with hunger, loneliness, and neglect. His story has been told in fragments, news headlines, social media posts, whispered rumors from neighbors, but when you piece it all together, what emerges is a chilling portrait of how abandonment, control, and indifference can destroy a child's life.
Starting point is 00:00:44 This is Christian's story, retold step by step, not just as a case file but as a warning. Olga's cry for help. Let's start with Olga ID Levy. Christian's mother. She wasn't some faceless figure, she was a woman living in Mexico, far from her native Russia, raising her little boy under difficult conditions. She was 34 by the time everything collapsed, but her fight had started long before. Through her posts on social media, mostly written in Russian, Olga left behind a raw diary of what she was going through. Those posts reveal despair, anger, and exhaustion. In one of them, she admitted she had gone two full
Starting point is 00:01:28 days without eating, while her son survived on nothing more than a single tortilla. Imagine that for a second, a child waking up, asking for breakfast, and being handed one tortilla as if that was enough to fill a hungry belly. In those same posts, Olga pointed fingers at Marco Antonio Mahongos Velasco, Christian's father. She accused him of taking every from her, her job, her money, her friends, her dignity, even Christian's school and birthday celebrations. She said Marco stripped away her private life, her relationship with her own parents, and left her mentally broken. She wasn't writing as a casual complaint. She was pouring out her soul, saying she had no strength left. According to her, Marco not only failed to provide
Starting point is 00:02:19 but actively sabotaged her stability. He pressured her, monitored her, even allegedly sent people to watch her under the guise of helping with money that she could never repay. Her words painted a picture of control and intimidation. Why should I be the object of violence? She asked him in one post,
Starting point is 00:02:39 almost begging for an answer that never came. Locked away and left to break. In another heartbreaking revelation, Olga said that in spite of, spring 23, Marco had been responsible for her losing a job that was sustaining both her and Christian. From then on, she was trapped, forced to beg for crumbs, confined in the apartment, living with broken utilities and unpaid rent. Think about the spiral, no job, no money, no food, mounting debts, and a child depending
Starting point is 00:03:11 entirely on her. The electricity, water, and other services were cut off when she couldn't keep up with rent payments. The lack of power and basic utilities wasn't just uncomfortable, it was a form of pressure to make her leave the apartment. But where could she go? With what money? The neighbors noticed too. They later told reporters that Olga sometimes worked in nightclubs or took jobs as an escort,
Starting point is 00:03:39 offering companionship services. But it wasn't steady. Some nights she had work, others she didn't. And when she left for those jobs, Christian stayed behind, alone in the apartment. He didn't have grandparents nearby, no extended family stepping in, no babysitter. Just four walls and silence. Every time Olga walked out that door, she must have known she was leaving Christian exposed. But in her mind, maybe that was the only way to bring home a little money, to put a meal
Starting point is 00:04:12 on the table the next day. It's a cruel choice no parent should ever have to make, abandon your child for a few hours to work, or stay and watch him starve with you. The legal fight nobody won. Here's the part that adds insult to injury, Olga didn't just suffer in silence. She actually tried to use the legal system to force Marco to step up as a father. Records from Mexico's virtual judicial power portal confirmed that as far back as 2019, Olga filed a case, Family Matter No. 98-209 against Marco in the 10th family court. She wanted him to fulfill his obligations, to contribute financially, to at least take responsibility for Christian. There were follow-up legal actions too, but nobody knows the results. Maybe the cases got
Starting point is 00:05:06 buried under bureaucracy. Maybe hearings were delayed. Maybe paperwork was lost. Whatever the reason, the bottom line is clear, nobody was looking out for Christian's best interests. The court case became just another file gathering dust while Christian wasted away. Christians last months. As more details came out, the Mexican public started to piece together Christian's final months. They were ugly. The boy was living in an apartment with no electricity, no gas, no running water. His meals were irregular, sometimes scraps, sometimes nothing. His mother was overwhelmed, sometimes absent, sometimes present but broken. His father was nowhere to be seen. By the time December 24 arrived, Christian was already in critical condition. His body
Starting point is 00:06:03 was frail, his energy gone. On December 30th, when police officers finally entered the apartment, what they found was a boy barely clinging to life. He was lying in bed, covered in blankets, his body skeletal. There was no spark left in him. The officers rushed him to the hospital, but the doctors there admitted the truth, his malnutrition was almost impossible to reverse. On December 31st, 2024, Christian died. Alone. No family at his side, no hand holding his as he took his last breath. Just hospital staff doing their best to comfort a child who should never have been in that situation to begin with. Nobody claimed him. If that wasn't tragic enough, here's the detail that crushed people's hearts. When Christian's body was ready for release,
Starting point is 00:06:58 came to claim him. Not his mother, who had disappeared after the police raid. Not his father, who had ignored him for years. Hospital staff at the Children's Hospital of Oskapot-Salko, along with police and the Attorney General's office, tried to contact relatives. They searched for anyone, a grandparent, an uncle, a cousin, who would step forward and give Christian a proper burial. No one came. The boy died hungry, alone, and unclaimed. The hunt for Olga and Marco. With Christian gone, attention turned to accountability. Authorities announced they had opened investigations to track down Olga and Marco. Both parents were officially wanted, not necessarily with handcuffs waiting at the door, but with questions they needed to answer.
Starting point is 00:07:53 But as weeks passed, neither showed up voluntarily. Neither was found. It was as if they both vanished from the face of the earth, leaving Christian behind even in death. The debate explodes. Public opinion in Mexico split into two camps. One side was furious at Olga. They saw her as the primary culprit,
Starting point is 00:08:19 a mother who left her child to starve, who worked in nightlife and escort jobs while her son wasted away in the dark. For them, Christian's death was a direct result of her negligence. The other side, made up largely of feminist groups and human rights organizations, argued differently. They pointed at Marco, saying he had every means to prevent this tragedy but chose not to. He was a lawyer, financially stable, socially connected. And yet he left his son in poverty while a woman. allegedly mocking Olga's struggles. They argued that society was too quick to blame the mother,
Starting point is 00:08:58 too eager to call her names like escort and negligent, while letting the father fade into the background. Their argument was simple. If Marco had taken responsibility, Christian would not have been hungry. If Marco had provided even the minimum support, Christian could have lived. Feminist Voices From social media to press conferences, feminist collectives raised their voices. They demanded that Marco be located and held accountable as the presumed responsible party. In their view, Olga was not just a mother who failed, but also a woman crushed under control, abuse, and lack of support. They acknowledged her flaws but insisted the bigger crime was Marco's abandonment.
Starting point is 00:09:46 They said the justice system had failed. Olga and Christian by ignoring her court cases, by not enforcing child support, by allowing years of neglect to pass without intervention. Christian's final hours. Perhaps the most gut-wrenching part of the entire story is imagining Christian's final hours. The hospital staff later revealed that when he died on December 31st, there was nobody there for him.
Starting point is 00:10:14 Not a single family member to squeeze his hand, whisper in his ear, or comfort him. For a six-year-old child, death is already unimaginable. But to face it alone, after years of hunger and neglect, is beyond heartbreaking. His body lay unclaimed, his memory left for journalists and activists to piece together. What this case says about Mexico. Christian's story isn't just about one child or one family. It's a mirror held up to Mexico's justice system, social safety nets, and its cultural biases.
Starting point is 00:10:53 Why did it take his death for anyone to notice? Why did courts let years pass without enforcing child support? Why was Olga vilified instantly, while Marco's absence was barely mentioned in the headlines? The truth is harsh, Christian's case shows how easy it is for vulnerable children to slip through the cracks. The bigger conversation At the end of the day, this isn't just about blaming one parent or another. It's about asking harder questions.
Starting point is 00:11:27 What safety nets exist for single mothers in Mexico? Why is child support so rarely enforced? How do gender biases shape the way we judge cases like this? And most importantly, how many more Christians are out there right now, suffering in silence? the end or just the beginning for now the official line is this investigations are ongoing Olga hasn't been found
Starting point is 00:11:58 Marco hasn't been held accountable Christian is gone but his story lingers it circulates on social media it fuels debates it keeps activists shouting for justice and maybe that's the only silver lining maybe Christian's short life, painful as it was, can spark change so that the next child doesn't die alone, hungry, and forgotten.
Starting point is 00:12:25 Because no child deserves a tortilla as his last meal. The end.

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