"A 28-year-old local resident previously convicted of a similar crime was detained," the statement said.

It is noted that a criminal case has been opened on the grounds of a crime under paragraph “b” of Part 4 of Art.

132 of the Criminal Code of Russia (other acts of a sexual nature).

Currently, the issue of bringing charges against the person involved in the case and taking him into custody is being decided.

Earlier, the prosecutor's office organized an investigation into reports that an underage girl had been raped in the Tikhvin Interdistrict Hospital in the Leningrad Region.