Terrifying footage shows two men snapping up little Veronika Nikolayeva before barbarically killing the five-year-old when her emergency calls were reportedly ignored by passers-by in Kostroma, Russia
Russia: Young girl is taken away by two men
This is the terrible moment when a “convicted pedophile and his male lover” are alleged to have kidnapped a five-year-old girl before “raping and killing” the child.
Veronika Nikolayeva played in Kostroma, Western Russia, in a complex near her mother’s place of work.
The tragic youth was suddenly grabbed by two men, the police confirmed.
They are then accused of sexually assaulting them before taking their lives, reports say. She had been stabbed several times and her body was hidden in a duffel bag.
One of the suspects, Denis Gerasimov, 44, had previously been jailed for crimes such as child pornography production, it said. The other man, Vadim Belyakov, 24, is said to have been convicted of theft.
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When the suspects were later arrested, they needed police protection to stop a lynching by angry locals.
The child reportedly “fought and struggled,” but passers-by ignored her plight when she was kidnapped by two strangers.
Nobody reported the distress of the screaming girl to the police.
Her mother did not see the kidnapping but immediately reported the girl missing and a major search began with police and volunteers.
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The officers arrested “two suspects who had confessed to the murder of the child, the body of the victim was found in a room in a dormitory,” said the Russian investigation committee.
Gerasimov was released from prison last March after serving four and a half years on convictions, including sex with an underage girl.
The penal colony in which he was serving described him as “polite, tactful, not impolite”.
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The video shows a suspect carrying the kidnapped girl while the other walks alongside.
When police ransacked the suspect’s room at a hostel, they found the girl’s body hidden in a travel bag, law enforcement officials say.
The girl had been raped before she was killed.
“Immediately after the information about the detention (of the suspects) came out, residents gathered at the hostel where the child’s body was found,” the 112 news agency reported.
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“They demanded the extradition of the (alleged) murderers and wanted to lynch them.”
A video shows the girl’s body being transported into a police vehicle.
A social media post stated: “This case shows again that the surveillance system for pedophiles is not working and giving them the opportunity to commit crimes again.”
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The suspects are said to have been in a longstanding relationship since the younger man was a minor.
The men told the interrogators the crime was “spontaneous,” it said.
The younger “advised his partner to catch the girl and make fun of her”.
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