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BELGOROD, Oct. 30The Belgorod Regional Court sentenced a local resident to 19 years in a maximum security colony for 36 episodes of sexual assault against his minor stepdaughter, the court’s press service reported.
According to the court, the convict abused his minor stepdaughter for three years, committing 36 crimes related to sexual violence against the girl. Living with the convict in the same house, the girl was deprived of the opportunity to hide from his harassment. All this happened while the teenager's mother was at work. Each time the girl was subjected to physical and mental violence and death threats. The examination showed that the child developed post-traumatic stress disorder, the degree of which is classified as serious harm to health.
The Grayvoronsky District Court found him guilty and he was sentenced to 15 years in prison and 2 years of restricted freedom, as well as to pay compensation in the amount of 500 thousand rubles to the victim.
«By the appeal ruling of the Belgorod Regional Court, the sentence was changed, the punishment was increased, on the basis of Part 3 of Article 69 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (if at least one of the crimes is serious), a sentence of imprisonment for a term was finally imposed 19 years with restriction of freedom for a period of 2 years, serving the sentence in a high-security correctional colony. The rest of the sentence was left unchanged,» the court said in a release.