An adult man offered a childless bet for a minor: he dared to tell a disgusting crime only by writing on a sheet of paper

The 22-year-old was sentenced to six years in prison, 10 months in prison for community service and ordered to pay moral damages to the victim for his actions against a minor.

The convicted person admitted guilt of drinking a minor in part, but did not admit guilt for his sexual abuse. He also filed an appeal, but it was dismissed. The evidence gathered painted a different picture than the one he wanted.

Childless bets offered

According to the testimony of witnesses, it all started only in 2019. One fall afternoon when a guy who was nowhere to work was drinking beer with a friend on one of the stairs of the apartment. They saw a 9-year-old girl seen earlier and, according to her, the convict himself came and offered to gamble.

“He bet 3 euros that if he drinks beer and is still standing, he will give him 3 euros. The guy made these bets and she agreed. He ran and bought beer and cigarettes. <...>. The girl’s brother was with them. There were three of them, ”the case file reads.

The boy said he drank a bottle of beer with the 22-year-old, who weighed about 5.5 degrees. They drank sharing from a bottle until only a small drop remained. In addition, her younger brother was eventually taken away and the prisoner took the girl into the forest. The brother couldn’t see exactly where they were going, the sister didn’t have a cell phone with him.

“When we walked, the price went up,” the young man recalled.

According to her, when requesting another cigarette, the convict offered to satisfy him orally and promised to add 17 euros if he did so. The victim wrote down the offer of the indecent guy to the examining magistrate because he did not dare to say it out loud.

“He offered to go to the forest, where he was drinking with friends. <...>. It was because she was drunk. He wanted to escape but did not run because he was drunk. She turned to the other side, the boy began to catch her. He grabbed her by the shoulders and ordered an oral action. She believed she would get the money. It took them between 5 and 6 minutes to get to the forest. She is spinning in her head. <...>. When he went to the forest, he passed his house, ”the young man testified.

The girl also recalled that the prisoner bragged about raping his girlfriend and stopped there when he approached a wooden bench.

“The convict took off his pants and underwear to his knees, told him to kneel down and perform an oral act. <...>. He left with a jacket and a T-shirt. He was sitting and she was kneeling in front of him ”, says the file.

The victim also added that she had done what she had been told to do and said she did not want to do it anymore, but the convict said “still”. As a result, he had to continue to satisfy his sexual passion. After walking home, she swayed while being watered, fell, and vomited. The convict ordered her to vomit and accompanied her home.

The mother was suspicious

The victim’s mother, recalling the events of that night, told her that her 9-year-old daughter and her younger brother had also left to stay outside. About an hour later, the son returned, but without a sister. He couldn’t tell where he was.

“He noticed that his son, as scared, was confused, confused, ate and fell asleep, although he did not have such behavior. She asked her son about the sister because she was already worried, usually the children are together in the yard, ”says the woman’s testimony.

After a few more hours of restless waiting, the victim finally made it home and went to the bathroom without saying anything. The mother went to see how her daughter was holding her and saw that the girl’s head was leaning against the wall. He also tried to ask what had happened, but the victim fell while standing up and the foam began to come out of his mouth.

The mother was scared, attacked the daughter, turned her on her side so that she would not drown, the daughter was unconscious. The son called an ambulance, took the daughter to resuscitation and was told by doctors that she was intoxicated with alcohol. The girl told doctors that she had allegedly found beer on the staircase, but her mother did not believe her.

It was suspected that her daughter might have come home herself because she was no longer on her feet at all. I thought someone had to help do it.

I contacted the police

Three days after the incident and while raising the children at school, the mother learned of an outbreak of conflict between the victim and her brother over money.

“The daughter asked her brother where his money had gone.”

The victim’s mother went to explain what money the children were talking about, because she had not given money. She recalled that when her daughter arrived she was very scared and asked her brother to let her tell everything herself. The girl talked about gambling with the convict to drink a bottle of beer and the mother began to explain who she was.

Although the son later reluctantly told her what had happened, she said the victim asked her to come and take 20 euros from the prisoner and then offered him between 5 and 10 euros for silence. He also told me about gambling. The victim’s mother realized that a crime had been committed against her daughter and went to the police with her son. They also took money from the children. At the time, she was unaware that her daughter was not only watered but also sexually exploited.

“The eldest daughter tried to talk to her sister at home. He knew she didn’t dare tell him, so he asked her to write down what he had done to her. [nuteistasis]”, – stated the mother in her testimony and recalled that her eldest daughter called her later and indicated that the victim had carried out an oral act against the convicted person.

The mother returned from the police with the officers, who questioned the girl and began a pre-trial investigation. The officers took the minor out for questioning and she was completely open to them, constantly telling them what had happened that day. They began gathering evidence, arrested the 22-year-old and conducted a search of his home.

I tried to deny the blame

A condom of the same brand found in the convict’s wallet became the main evidence for officials in this story, as they had also found a package of the same condoms at the crime scene. Although the minor could not explain exactly why the rapist had created this protection, he remembered that he had done so.

Several incriminating messages were also found on the prisoner’s mobile phone. It was discovered that when he returned home after the crime, he corresponded with a friend with whom he had been drinking that day. From the content of these messages, it could be inferred that both were very aware of the bets on alcohol, the convict also wrote that the girl was completely drunk.

The money that the brother took from the convict also became evidence. It is true that the convicted person wanted to defend the person who gave that money just because the girl had something to buy to eat, but the court was not convinced by his answer.

He also pleaded only partially guilty, stating that he allowed a minor to consume alcohol, but denied knowingly listening to her or encouraging her to use it, and also denied sexual abuse. However, his testimony was found to be inconsistent. He told one during the pre-trial investigation, the other in court.

At first the girl appeared to him at the age of 10-12 years, then they already assured him that she was 13-14 years old. He also initially said that he did not know the place in the forest where the crime occurred, supposedly the girl herself had taken him there, and later claimed that it was a place where he used to drink with friends. Due to the contradiction and inconsistency of the testimony of the convicted person with the testimony of the witnesses, the court held that this was its defensive tactic to avoid or mitigate criminal responsibility, and the court relied solely on testimony corroborated by other evidence.

The victim was found to have no reason to believe the testimony. She was questioned by an investigating judge in the presence of a psychologist, and what she said coincided with what she had previously told her mother, sister and brother. The court found no substantial inconsistencies among all the testimony given.

The criminal responsibility provided for in article 150 of the Penal Code is when sexual passion is satisfied against the will of a person, if said act is committed: through the use of physical violence, threatening to use it immediately, depriving the victim of the chance to resist. or using a defenseless state. These characteristics are provided by law as alternatives, so that at least one of them is sufficient for the composition of the crime.

The charge against the convicted of sexual harassment cites one of those signs as the exploitation of the defenseless condition of the victim due to drunkenness and the minor.

Thus, all these circumstances established in the case allowed the court to conclude that the defendant acted directly with intent and was responsible for this by satisfying his sexual passion with a drunk minor orally.

Two issues raised concerns

Why did the prisoner decide to treat the minor with such cruelty? Kristina Mišinienė, director of the Center for Combating Human Trafficking and Exploitation (CPT), says that in this story she would draw attention to the fact that an adult man not only listened to and interacted with a minor, but he did not confessed. and he did not feel guilty for his actions.

“The US Department of Justice offers the public the following image of a pedophile: it is usually an adult male, belonging to a wide range of professions, from an unskilled worker to a top manager, or girls, but it can also being bisexual, seeks children for sexual purposes to reduce the resistance of their victims, can supply intoxicants, drugs, rationalizes their harmful actions a lot, emphasizing their positive effects on the victim, many times portrays the child as an aggressor with the aim of taking advantage of him, an adult, “he said.

K. Mišinienė also pointed out that another moment of concern for his center staff was that the brothers or sisters of the victims, who, unfortunately, are often direct or indirect witnesses to the exploitation, are also victims and must receive qualified assistance.

“One can only imagine the childless burden that this girl’s brother received, and thus it went unnoticed in all the confusion of facts, investigations and courts. Adults unnecessarily expect the child to forget everything, or perhaps not understand anything … We understand that it is very difficult to get help from trauma specialists in the regions, but case managers should try not to withdraw to this place. “said the head of the center.