The Riga City Court sentenced a man to 13 years in prison, found guilty of sexual acts committed using the victim's helpless state and applying violence against a minor, reported Laura Krastina, a representative of the Latvian Prosecutor's Office.
The accused man (born in 2003) had previously been convicted of sexual offenses as well as property crimes.
Attacked in the stairwell
The crime occurred on June 28 of last year – the police received a report that an unknown man attacked a 9-year-old girl in the Riga neighborhood of Kengarags and committed violent sexual acts against her.
When the girl entered the stairwell of an apartment building on Ikshkil Street, the man followed her. In the stairwell, the accused took advantage of the victim's helplessness, covered her mouth with one hand, and inserted the other hand into the girl's underwear, touching her genitals, before fleeing the scene of the crime.
He was found with the help of video
The search for the suspect involved officers from the 3rd department of the 1st bureau of the Criminal Police of the Riga region and police from the Riga Eastern Police Department.
The police quickly obtained video footage showing the alleged perpetrator. The photo was sent to the media with a call for residents to provide information about the identity of the depicted man, as well as his possible whereabouts.
As a result, the identity of the suspect was established – he was arrested on July 1.
The prosecutor's office notes that as a result of the crime, the normal psychological development of the victim was disrupted, affecting her understanding of morality, and psychological consequences emerged that correspond to mental trauma.
The court imposed the punishment requested by the prosecutor on the pervert, so the prosecutor will not ask the court to prepare a full text of the verdict.
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