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On Thursday morning, Manta was escorted to the Klaipeda Regional Court by his father, but the man did not accompany his son to the court building and said goodbye to him as soon as he met with a lawyer.
Mantas had already covered his face with the outdoor mask, although that mask is no longer mandatory. Neither on the way to court nor in the courtroom did the young man say a word.
The conditional sentence imposed on Mantas, Jurbarkas, has sparked a heated public debate that the sentence is very lenient, and in judicial practice even minors who have committed serious crimes are in no rush to be sent behind bars. Mindaugas Vasiliauskas, a lawyer representing the injured girl and her father, says that such practice is flawed and sends a clear signal to minors that they are not really being punished.
M. Vasiliauskas, who filed a complaint with the court, says that, in his opinion, the young man should be behind bars, because he has committed a crime with long-term consequences, both physical and moral. He also appealed against the assessment of damages of the Tauragė District Court of 12 thousand euros. The lawyer did not disclose the amount claimed by the victim’s girl’s family, but said it was significantly less than the original documents.
The girl’s and her father’s lawyer, M. Vasiliauskas, asked the court to resume examining the evidence, as well as to provide data from the probation service.
“The court believed our arguments that the circumstances were unclear and allowed the accused to be further interviewed. This confirms our arguments that the trial court did not do everything it needed to do to get the case examined in the court ”, says M. Vasiliauskas and adds that there will be no additional examination of witnesses.
The prosecutor’s office that filed the complaint also requires an actual sentence from Mantas of eighteen years. It is true that the boy is tried as a minor, because he was 17 years old at the time of the crime.
The lawyer representing the child ensures that the complaint of the convicted party arose on the initiative of the lawyer. According to him, neither the boy nor his parents asked for it, but the man did not commit the crime not because he was prevented, but because he stopped him, an attempted rape, for which he should not be held legally responsible.
Delfi recalls that the crime was committed on the morning of May 26, around 4.30 p.m. According to preliminary research data, a drunk minor (born in 2001) attempted to rape a minor (born in 2002) using physical violence in the Taurag distrito district, a rural tourism farm. The guy’s arrest revealed that the suspect was intoxicated. It was established at 1.12 avg. drunkenness.
The victim’s attorneys and the prosecution appealed the three and four month suspended sentences imposed by the Taurag District Court office. The accused’s complaint soon reached the Klaipeda Regional Court.
The guy who expressed his desire to participate in the court did not attend the first scheduled hearing in Klaipeda. He informed the court of his illness just before the hearing, so the case was not opened.
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