Convicted Russian paedophile monk faces fresh charges
May 26th, 2011 - 2:24 am ICT by IANSMoscow, May 26 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Charges of raping an eight-year-old child have been brought against the former head of an Orthodox monastery in Central Russia’s Kostroma Region, police said Wednesday.
The 40-year-old suspect has already been convicted of sexually abusing a 14-year-old boy. He was sentenced to a year in a colony settlement, a low-security jail without armed guards, where prisoners are allowed to move freely and even live with their families.
“In 1997 he met an eight-year-old boy in the street and suggested he did some easy housework for him in exchange for a watch. After luring the small boy into his apartment, he sexually assaulted him,” the regional police department said in a press release.
Another church official, employed in the same diocese, was earlier sentenced to three years in a medium-security jail for numerous counts of child abuse and two counts of child rape.
The region’s governor Igor Slyunyaev has repeatedly expressed his support for harsher sentences for the two men.
Last week, hundreds of young people rallied “against paedophilia” in the regional capital, Kostroma.
–IANS/RIA Novosti
sd
- Russian faces jail for killing his rapist - May 11, 2012
- Russian jailed for stabbing driver 34 times - Dec 19, 2011
- Gay activists fined in Russia - Apr 25, 2012
- Man jailed after dog 'shoots' friend - Apr 04, 2012
- Child attacked by tiger in Russian zoo - Jan 04, 2012
- Jailed ex-Israeli president freed for seven hours - May 21, 2012
- Russian city to slap fine for promoting homosexuality - Feb 03, 2012
- Anti-gay propaganda bill passed in Siberia - Apr 26, 2012
- Teenager jailed for killing Russian Santa Claus - May 04, 2012
- Four teens held for rape, murder of minor girl - Apr 14, 2012
- Russian city bans homosexual propaganda - Feb 29, 2012
- Man held for thawing Russian morgue - Mar 15, 2012
- Russian lower house passes paedophile castration bill - Feb 08, 2012
- Doctor held for injuring 'demon-possessed' kid - Mar 23, 2012
- Boy abducted because of his name - Apr 05, 2012
Tags: armed guards, central russia, child abuse, child rape, housework, kostroma region, low security, medium security, monk, moscow, orthodox monastery, paedophilia, Press Release, prisoners, regional capital, regional police department, ria novosti, security jail, sentences, two men