“On February 19, during the consideration of the appeal, the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court quashed the verdict. We have not yet seen the motivation of the court. Which of the many arguments in support of Dmitry the court considered fair, we do not know yet, ”Katerinchik explained.
According to the interlocutor, the court also changed the measure of restraint for house arrest to the Monk - in the coming days he should leave the pre-trial detention center.
As RT reported, a 13-year-old schoolgirl from the Nizhny Novgorod region accused the 19-year-old Monk and his friend Sergei Schennikov of rape. A year after the alleged crime, the girl’s mother wrote a statement to the police. Shchennikov eventually admitted that he had entered into an intimate relationship with her by mutual consent, and was sentenced to 12 years in prison. A monk who denies sexual contact with the victim was sentenced to six years in prison. The evidence in the case against the Monk turned out to be only one - the testimony of the girl and her mother. At the same time, in a correspondence in social networks, the girl admitted to the acquaintances of the convicts that she had slandered the guys under pressure from her mother.