In Spite Of Murderous Custody Battle, Girl Is "Happy"

2009_03_michemal.jpg In October 2007, Michelle Malakov, then four years old, saw her father gunned down as she was being taken to her mother for a supervised visit. What unraveled was a plot to gain custody of Michelle; her mother Mazoltuv Borukhova was found guilty of killing her estranged husband (along with a relative, who carried out the actual murder) on Tuesday. These days, 6-year-old Michelle is living her father's brother Gavriel Malakov, his wife and son. Her uncle tells the Daily News, "She's a happy girl, she really is. Very sweet kid. Just like other kids." He also says that they don't discuss the murder with her. While Borukhova plans to appeal, the News says that her parental rights will probably be terminated. Michelle's law guardian thinks her uncle and aunt are "exceptional parents": "If anybody is to adopt, it is them, and that's who I am going to support wholeheartedly. She's totally assimilated into the family."

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I really hope she is all happy and gets to have a relatively normal childhood. She deserves that much.

The normal teen angst will be compounded when she's old enough to start researching these news stories about her family's past on her own. Poor girl, she won't ever be "normal".

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I hope this girl can get out of this whole mess relatively unscathed.

hey jen, your readers deserve a proofread posting

Kids are resilient, that's for sure...

It sounds like she is in a stable and loving home, and the child definitely deserves that. And breaknight is so right, kids are resilient.

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