A Russian mother is being investigated by police and childcare services over a terrifying video that shows her six-year-old son driving on a motorway at 80mph.
Agina Altynbayeva, 29, had put her child behind the wheel of her Hyundai Solaris on an empty highway in the country's Tatarstan region.
The shocking footage shows the young boy appearing to be in control of the car as the speed dial is seen touching 80mph (130kmph).
As well as being well under Russia's legal driving age of 18, the child was breaking the road's speed limit of 75 mph (120 kph).
According to some reports the boy is known to have had eye surgery this summer.
Ms Altynbayeva reacted furiously to criticism she received after posting the footage on her social media.
Calling the video 'Happy Son', the mother-of-four commented: 'I live the way I want.
'I regret nothing, I am calm about everything. I do not need your crippled comments.
'You have not tried living my life. You don't have a right to judge me.'
She added: 'I am proud that my children can easily drive a car.'
Altynbayeva - who has worked in advertising and at a car rental business - said that she allowed her children to drive the car as compensation for their father being absent from the family home.
For the same reason, she is teaching them to shoot, she said.
'I love every minute of this life spent with my boys. I so much like being a mother,' she added.
'I like spending all my time only with my beloved sons.'
When told she was being reported to police over the high speed video, she replied: 'F*** you all.
'There is a law but it does not say that children can't go behind the wheel.
'Let's compete in who knows traffic rules best.'
She told her critics: 'Do not comment on my life, or teach me how to live it.
'I don't care what my life looks like.
'I am not interested in your private life and I would like it to be mutual….
'I do everything right, and if you think that I am not right, it is your problem.'
Police and childcare authorities initiated a preliminary investigation after the publication of his video, the Tatarstan Interior Ministry told Tatar-Inform news outlet.
'Traffic police and their childcare colleagues will investigate and announce their decision.'
Earlier Altynbayeva was criticised for another video in which she drove with a baby on her lap. Her eldest son is nine and her youngest nine months.
This article has been adapted from its original source.
