In the Kursk region remembered the case of 1977 rape for a village club

This is a 1977 case of rape involving death threats and grievous bodily harm.

According to the circumstances of the case, in September 1977, a 26-year-old resident of Kursk was sent to harvest sugar beets in the collective farm “40 years of October”. In the evening, a girl and a friend went to a village club. After spending some time there, she went outside, followed by a 19-year-old boy. He grabbed her hand and dragged her to the club, the girl screaming and resisting. The young man voiced his intentions and warned that he would kill her if she did not stop resisting. The girl replied that he would rather kill her. Then the guy squeezed her neck with his hand and began to strike, from which the victim lost consciousness, at this moment he committed the plan. As a result, a 26-year-old resident of Kursk was hospitalized in serious condition.

In court, the guy confessed to the crime, but disputed the existence of a death threat. Having assessed the body of evidence, the court found that the threat took place and was a means of suppressing the will of the victim. The young man was sentenced to a maximum sentence under this article - 10 years in prison in a forced labor colony of a strengthened regime.

In the appeal, the convict asked to reduce the sentence, citing a sincere confession, young age, no criminal record and difficult family circumstances (early loss of mother). The higher court examined the arguments of the complaint, recognized the sentence as lawful and justified and left it unchanged. 18. +