“On May 15, 2021, the court granted a petition ... to choose a preventive measure in the form of detention in relation to a 49-year-old man suspected of committing a crime under Part 2 of Art.
105 of the Criminal Code of Russia (murder of a minor), ”the press release says.
During the interrogation, the suspect confessed.
According to the investigation, on May 13, a man arrived from the city of Zavolzhye to Bolshoe Kozino and, riding a bicycle, noticed an unfamiliar young girl.
He attacked a child in a forest belt, committed a crime against her sexual inviolability and killed her, stabbing her.
The suspect already had an outstanding conviction for a crime against the sexual integrity of a minor.
On May 13, a 12-year-old girl disappeared on her way home from school in the Nizhny Novgorod region.
In the evening of the same day, her body was found in a forest belt.