In the Kharkiv region, a college freshman brutally attacked a schoolgirl.
This was reported on his Facebook page by Sergey Bolvinov, the head of the Investigative Department of the National Police of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region, as conveyed by "Dumka".
According to him, the victim is fifteen years old, while the boy is seventeen and is a first-year college student. They were part of a larger group celebrating a birthday in a nearby village, where they consumed alcohol.
Afterward, their friends dropped both of them off at an intersection. They then walked home, and near his house, the boy asked her to help him open the door, luring her inside and began to harass her.
The girl refused him, broke free, and ran outside. It was there she received her first blows – six hits to the head with a brick. She lost consciousness, and he dragged her from the yard to the garden.
"Right by the fence, he stopped - he raped the girl while she was unconscious and attempted to strangle her with his hands. Then, in the garden, he started to burn her - for this, he poured diesel fuel on her," Bolvinov wrote.
It was raining, the lighter wouldn’t work, and he had to go get matches. Eventually, the girl's clothing caught fire. The boy didn’t wait for the body to burn. He went inside, changed clothes, hid his belongings behind a nightstand, and fell into a deep sleep. He was awakened by the screams of neighbors.
A man from a neighboring plot saw the girl on the ground, from which smoke was rising, when he went out to the toilet. He immediately recognized the schoolgirl and called her mother.
It was indeed the rain that saved her life - it didn’t completely extinguish the flames but prevented the child from burning to death. The boy cannot explain why he did such a thing. He recounted all the details, but there is no explanation for such brutal cruelty.
That night, no one was home because the boy lived alone with his father, who was on the night shift as a security guard. His mother left the family when he was seven years old. This was a trauma, according to relatives. And at the beginning of the Russian invasion, he experienced occupation, which also affected his psyche, his father believes.
The boy had previously shown aggression within his own family - once he struck his own grandmother on the head with a glass bottle.
The girl is in very serious condition in intensive care - she suffered burns and severe injuries, and medical staff are trying to save her. She is the eldest in a large family, and her father has passed away. Her mother is raising her and three younger brothers on her own.
The boy has already been informed of the charges against him, and he is in custody. He faces life imprisonment - he is charged with murder combined with rape.
Tomorrow, the court will decide on a preventive measure, and we will petition for him to be held in custody without bail.