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Pera Dmitrov (67) from Backa Palanka was sentenced today in Novi Sad High Court to a single eight-year prison term for the protracted criminal offense of having sexual intercourse with a child along with the protracted criminal offense of illicit sexual activity.
According to the verdict pronounced, the defendant Dimitrov is also obliged to pay the amount of 300,000 dinars to the minor injured NN born in 2006 in the name of compensation for moral damages for mental pain and human dignity within a period of one month from the firmness of the verdict under threat of execution.
As stated in the reasoning of the High Court, the defendant Dmitrov was “able to understand the meaning of his act and manage his actions on an unspecified day in 2017 until June 19 next year at his home in Bačka Palanka in the Calle Čerga, aware of his act and wanted it to be carried out, to satisfy his sexual impulse, committed ten to fifteen times with a girl, a damaged NN who was born in 2006, an act equated with intercourse and on several occasions performed other sexual acts with she ”.
– The court sentenced the defendant to eight years in prison, assessing all the circumstances on the part of the defendant who did not show an iota of compassion throughout the process, as well as the circumstances related to the commission of two criminal offenses in the Cerga settlement where all lived as close neighbors and close or distant relatives. The court also evaluated all the circumstances on the minor’s part. damaged, her family and social circumstances, which her mother left when she was three months old, to grow up with her father, stepmother and three siblings, to go to school regularly, but also to develop in an educational and socially little environment stimulating. With this ruling, the court determines that the general prevention goals will be achieved in terms of influencing the possible perpetrators of such crimes: it is written in the announcement of the Novi Sad High Court.
In accordance with the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Council of Europe Convention on the protection of children against sexual exploitation and sexual abuse, the High Court, as indicated in the statement, awarded compensation for moral damages for mental pain due to the violation of human dignity. Man and every child acquires at birth, without distinction of gender, race, nationality and no one has the right to take it away or hurt it, and sexual violence is one of the gravest forms of human dignity that generates a terrifying, hostile and humiliating environment. what motivated the conduct of the accused and the apparently objective inability of the injured minor to prevent it, oppose it or report it to someone.
– For all this, the court sent a clear message that all children have the same right to childhood, and that a child who does not have adequate protection from his family and his environment will be protected by the law and the court, said the Novi Sad High Court. .
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