He did not even understand how he got into a dangerous trap: now you would be a prostitute and I would be your master.

This is a reality facing a minor living in Kaunas County, and her “ruler” wanted to be a 22-year-old resident of Jonava, who had once been convicted of sexual abuse of minors. The pervert probably would have continued to wreak havoc, but was arrested and imprisoned by police officers. And only then were the man’s dark secrets cleared up, although neither his family nor his friends suspected anything about it.

The panel of judges of the Lithuanian Court of Appeal, which examined the criminal case against the perverted young man, announced that the Jonaviškis, who had sexually exploited the girl, would have to spend 5 years behind bars. This sentence combined his sentence with the custodial sentence imposed in another case, for which the man will have to spend 7 years in prison. In addition, you will have to pay the victim 3.5 thousand. compensation for moral damage.

“The victim was intellectually abused and exploited to produce pornographic products,” said a panel chaired by Judge Regina Pocienė.

The court ruling, which upheld the Kaunas Regional Court ruling previously announced to the pervert, went into effect immediately. It is true that formally the convicted person will have the opportunity to appeal to the Court of Cassation, but this only deals with the application of the law.

As the criminal case was heard in private, the courts do not reveal the name of the convicted person, but simply declare that the convicted person is AJ.

According to the data of the case, it was established that in 2019. In the summer, the convict created an account on the social network Facebook, pretending to be a girl. Then the man began to search for his victims: he was interested in girls as young as possible.

One of them was a minor recognized as a victim in this criminal case. He did not even think about the dangers lurking on the Internet, and he blindly believed in it from the beginning of his relationship with the “new friend”.

“I had my account on Facebook, once a girl wrote to me and asked me how old I was,” said the girl during a survey with a psychologist. – I said I was 12 years old, then that girl introduced herself, said she was 13 or 14 years old. This is how we start to communicate. When we became “friends”, that girl asked me to send her pictures of her breasts, then to take pictures with only panties, and even later, without panties. “

Driven by a childish curiosity, the twelve-year-old boy complied with these requests, but as soon as he sent these photos, he immediately deleted them from the correspondence: “I did not want them to remain in the history of the correspondence.”

After receiving the photos, the “girlfriend” decided to continue and began to ask for even more intimate photos of the young man. But she didn’t speak, so the “girlfriend” was angry.

“She told me to do various disgusting tasks, she also told me to play the role of a slave, a prostitute, and to call her master, and she wanted me to take pictures of my brother and sister naked,” she was shocked by such demands, she said. . He didn’t know what to do next, he didn’t dare tell his friends or his parents.

The twelve-year-old boy said that he did not want to complete the tasks, eliminated the “friend” from the virtual friends and blocked him both on the social network Facebook and in the Messenger application.

But he still couldn’t get rid of the “queen”: a month later, his “girlfriend” found a girl through his other royal friend.

“He introduced himself to this girl under a different name and sent me the photos he had sent her earlier, writing to her that if I didn’t unlock her then she would share my nude photos with her parents, friends and classmates,” he added. the girl said to the examining magistrate. – I was very scared, I didn’t know what to do, so I unlocked it. And then he gave me new assignments that he was told to complete in a week. She said that if I disobey and do not make these tasks public, she will publish my photos, and then I will have to repeat it with shame, because that was already the case with a girl ”.

According to the victim, her real friend, with whom the virtual “owner” had contacted, advised her to tell her parents what happened. That’s what she did: Unable to believe her little daughter’s story, the woman tried to call the “ruler” online, but did not speak.

“The mother then said that she would contact the police if the photos were made public,” said the minor.

The woman kept her promise: She reported the internet pervert to law enforcement officials. However, it was not so easy to find: the NordVPN software was installed and used on the man’s computer to change and hide the user’s real IP address on the Internet by replacing it with another IP address. Furthermore, it turned out that the man recently rewrote the operating system on his computer to destroy traces of the crime.

But the police officers still found the pervert, although it took not only a lot of effort but also time. But even the detainee did not want to admit that he values ​​the minor photographed and abused by her. And when the Kaunas court found him guilty, the man and the lawyer defending him declared that the judge who had examined the criminal case had handed down a sentence without any evidence of guilt, that he had decided to imprison a completely innocent person!

In their appeal, they stated that “the trial court was biased, misjudged the evidence in the case, and therefore drew conclusions that were inconsistent with the facts of the case.”

According to them, the court found that Jonaviškis used a mobile phone and a computer to hide the real IP address, used special software and also recorded that both the phone and the computer were connected to the Facebook account of the “ruler”, but that “These data alone are not sufficient to substantiate the guilt of the alleged crimes.”

Likewise, they pointed out that there was no concrete evidence in the case that the defendant had “committed a criminal act against the victim”, that it had not been proven that he was the “lover” who forced the minor to take photographs.

“In addition, the victim interviewed in court has indicated that the communication, sending her nude photos to the person through the account did not provoke sexual arousal or premature interest in sexual functions,” the court also determined that the victim She sent photos of her naked, but there is no evidence in the file to support these facts.

“They are not proven by the statements of the victim’s relatives about the existence of such photographs,” the appellant and his lawyer demanded acquittal.

However, the judges of the Lithuanian Court of Appeal were not convinced by these appeal arguments; they did not even doubt that Jonaviškis was reasonably convicted of the crimes charged against him.

“The Court of First Instance reasonably concluded, based on the victim’s testimony, that she had been intellectually abused and exploited for the production of pornographic products,” the appellate judges emphasized. – In the present case, although the nude photographs of the victim who sent the convicted person were not preserved, their existence is confirmed not only by the victim but also by witnesses who sent a nude photograph of the minor and threatened to distribute it naked. photos of the victim to other friends and family. After the victim unlocked the account, he continued his criminal activities to further exploit the minor to create and abuse pornographic content. “

According to the judges, the argument of the convicted person and his lawyer in the complaint that the criminal conduct of the convicted person could not be considered as abuse was unfounded, since the illegal actions against the victim did not cause sexual arousal or sexual precociousness. intercourse.

“Criminal law protects the sexual integrity of a person under the age of sixteen, regardless of the attitude of adults towards the acts committed, and the consequences are not a necessary characteristic of the objective aspect of the crime in question; the crime is formal, it is In other words, the crime is independent of the crime, its impact on the subject of this crime, a person under the age of sixteen, was emphasized by the panel of judges. “Therefore, the victim’s evidence that acts of a sexual nature committed against him did not provoke excitement or premature interest in the sexual relationship has no relation to the legal assessment of the guilt of the convicted person and his criminal conduct “.

The court also emphasized that the convict had been convicted of similar crimes two years ago, in which he used a fundamentally analogous criminal mechanism.

“Thus, the convicted person knew the seriousness of his offense and the reality of the imminent criminal responsibility, and in order to avoid imminent criminal responsibility by any means, he raised various versions of the case throughout the process, which the court verified and reasonably rejected for being contrary to objective facts ”, indicated the panel of judges chaired by R. Pocienė.

According to the court, the convicted person was undoubtedly aware that the victim was a minor.

“Therefore, by instructing him to photograph himself naked, his genitals, as well as naked his sister and younger brother and to send him those photos, she was well aware that he was so directly exploiting a minor to produce pornographic products, and she was abusing a person under the age of sixteen and she wanted to do it, that is, she acted with direct intention, ”the judges said.