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The shocking image caught the attention of social media and chat devices in early June. In the post, teens are violent against a girl. He undresses her, gets behind her hair, teases her, hits the girl in the face.
In another image, the affected girl kneels on her knees, not knowing why she is apologizing.
On June 4, the mother of the abused girl approached the police. Authorities discovered that the video was made on May 31 in Kaunas.
“Officials responded immediately to the report and very quickly identified the people involved in the incident and the exact location where it occurred. All of the people in the video are minors. A pre-trial investigation has been launched for a health condition. minor, and we no longer provide more information so as not to harm the interests of minors. This is not the first event in which police officers have to react to images of violence distributed on the Internet “, says Odeta Vaitkevičienė, Police representative of Kaunas.
In February, a group of 22 young people assaulted a minor with a minor in an online meeting with a minor in Karoliniškės Park, the capital of teenagers. The guy kicked the guy because he corresponded with a twelve year old boy.
Virtual police patrols on the Internet are trying to find the perpetrators of these videos and stop the perpetrators as soon as possible, but the task is not easy.
Mindaugas Akelaitis, representative of the Police Department, affirms: “We register relatively few images of violence on the Internet, because there is a problem that it is shared in private groups and closed circles. We are not accepted everywhere when there are closed groups. We focus on public activities, not closer to intelligence, this virtual patrol does not offer friends to these groups ”.
Officers are often assisted in reporting cases of violence by whistleblowers who contact the police by email. Facebook messages.
According to Edita Žiobienė, Ombudsman for the Protection of Children’s Rights, violence among adolescents is a long-standing problem, but images of such violence are said to be spreading more and more on social media:
“Violent behavior is popular, it happens often, it is true. What is very sad is that today we see a combination of violence with all forms of bullying and the same advertising that is being filmed, putting it on the internet.”
According to E. Žiobienė, adolescents who publicize cases of violence on the Internet create even more problems:
“It just came to our knowledge then. Those children accept it with sensitivity, they can end up in suicidal elements, self-harm, which is very scary. Popularization, that distribution. And other children see an example of how they can behave themselves.”
Officials are clarifying the circumstances of the event in Kaunas. If the girls who beat the girl are over the age of 14, they may be subject to criminal liability.
Public works, restriction or detention of freedom or imprisonment of up to one year may be imposed for causing physical pain, minor injuries.
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