Russian jury hearing evidence in a court case. Trust me… there are such things as fair trials in Russia… it’s not a dictatorship… you shouldn’t listen to the NY Times and its Orthodox amen corner in SVS (don’t forget that ADS’ son worked for the Grey Lady!).
On Thursday, a court in Dimitrovgrad in Ulyanovsk Oblast sentenced a 41-year-old sexton of a local church after it found him guilty of charges of child molestation. The court found him guilty under chapter “b” Part 3 Article 132 of the Criminal Code (sexual assault against persons known to be under fourteen years of age) and sentenced him to 20 years in prison, a spokesman for the court told Interfax. He will serve the first ten years of his sentence in a maximum-security prison and will serve the rest of his sentence in a penal colony. “We found 18 separate occasions of criminal activity [by the accused]. We held the trial in this criminal case behind closed doors. Amongst the victims were five boys and one girl, aged from 8-to-11-years-old”, the spokesman told us. He went on to tell us that the defendant admitted his guilt. “The sexton said that, even after serving his term, he would not reform, but, would engage in paedophilia again, therefore, he asked [the court] to sentence him to life imprisonment”, the spokesman of the court said. At the same time, in its sentence, the court took into consideration such mitigating circumstances as the defendant’s partial recognition of his guilt and his active cooperation with investigators.
12 November 2009
Interfax-Religion
http://www.interfax-religion.ru/?act=news&div=32877 (in Russian)
Editor’s Note:
One of the constant complaints issuing forth from the SVS crowd is that the Church in Russia winks at criminal activity. Nothing could be further from the truth, as this case indicates. Indeed, I would say that it is the OCA, not the MP, which does so. Bobby K, who stole over a million dollars from the OCA is still on its payroll… that is insane! I shall not mention the stories about Feodosy Lazor and other hierarchs (alas, they are too well-known). In short, the OCA has no call to criticise the MP for moral shortcomings (something one finds constantly in the comboxes on ocanews.org and on certain internet forums). In any case, this fellow is going to find out what punishment means… they don’t muck about in Russia, thank God (trust me, the Butyrki makes The Walls in Texas look like Club Med… I kid you not!)… it’s what we should do with certain people who all of us know about (I didn’t say ANYTHING about Venice FL… I truly did NOT!).
Barbara-Marie Drezhlo
Friday 13 November 2009
Albany NY
