Three men suspected of raping a minor girl in Cherkasy were sent under 24-hour house arrest.
This was reported in the Cherkasy Regional Prosecutorʼs Office.
The prosecution asked to take the suspects into custody. However, on May 8, the court ruled on the 24-hour arrest of all three involved.
Prosecutors are currently preparing to appeal the courtʼs decision. The sanction of the article of the Criminal Code provides from 7 to 12 years of imprisonment for the rape of a minor by a group of people.
- On May 6, a resident of Cherkassy appealed to the police with a statement about the rape of her 17-year-old daughter. Preliminary, three men (two policemen) drank alcohol in the apartment of one of them in Cherkasy. In the process of "resting" they were joined by a 17-year-old girl they knew, they drank together, and then the men raped her. They categorically denied their guilt.
- Two policemen who, together with an acquaintance, raped a 17-year-old girl, have already been dismissed from service, and the State Bureau of Investigation reported the suspicion of rape of a minor by a group of people.