A criminal case has been instituted against a Russian man who, according to the investigators, has cruelly beaten his five-year-old son in one of the streets of Russia's Yekaterinburg, Lenta reported.

The intoxicated man, 39, has broken his child's head by hitting it on pavement on the crossing of the streets. The little boy was hospitalized. The father of the boy fled the scene, but the investigators managed to detain him.