Today, the Regional Court in Pilsen sentenced 19-year-old Viktor Veselovský from Ukraine to 19 years of imprisonment in a high-security prison. He found him guilty of sexual abuse, rape and attempted murder of a fifteen-year-old girl. According to the court, last August he lured his acquaintance for a walk to the river, on the way he handcuffed her, raped her, stabbed and cut her throat, then stripped her, wrapped her in plastic, doused her with suction, threw her off a cliff and half-buried her with leaves. The girl pretended to be dead, which apparently saved her life. The case last summer in Pilsen fueled tension and anti-Ukraine sentiments.
Veselovský, who has lived in the Czech Republic for about five years, was threatened with an exceptional punishment. The public prosecutor demanded 18 years in prison for him. Veselovský’s defense attorney proposed an eleven-year sentence. The young man admitted to sexual abuse and attempted murder, but denied that he had raped the girl. According to him, it was only about sex. In addition to the punishment, the court ordered him to pay over 480,000 crowns to the girl as compensation for the pain and hardship caused.
The event happened last year on August 8, and public prosecutor Jiří Richtr has no doubts that Veselovskyj acted deliberately and prepared for the act. For a walk with a girl, he took plastic bags, sawo, knives and cardboard in his backpack. The young man claimed in court that he bought the bags and vacuum cleaner that day because he was going to clean up before his parents arrived, and he said that he always carried the adhesive tape and the knife in his backpack. He described the attack on the girl as an act of affect, not a premeditated act. He claimed that he and the girl had consensual sex during the walk, but they had an argument and the argument escalated into a physical attack. The girl allegedly pushed him, racially abused him, slapped him and doused him with suction. Veselovskyi said he pulled out a knife and swung it at the girl, and when she continued to prevent him from leaving and curse at him, he swung the knife a second time, he testified. He then allegedly panicked and thought the girl was dead, wrapped her in plastic, threw her off the cliff and tried to cover her.
However, the plaintiff did not accept his claim of acting under the influence. According to him, this is evidenced, among other things, by Veselovský’s words when he cut the girl’s throat. He told her it would be two days before she bled out, giving her a choice between a quick and painless death or a long and painful one, the prosecutor said. According to him, the motive stems from Veselovský’s personality. According to experts, the young man does not have a completely standard sexuality, they found evident sadistic elements in him. According to them, his actions stem from his antisocial personality structure – he is not interested in the feelings of others, he seeks to satisfy his own needs, he is aggressive and ready to attack. The experts also said unequivocally that Veselovskyj is very dangerous for society, he lacks a sense of guilt and it is difficult for him to make amends.
Veselovský’s defense attorney admitted that his client often bent the truth, but always to exaggerate his own person, skills or reputation. He pointed out that not only the girl, but also Veselovskyj are very young. The young man was 18 years old at the time of the incident.
The attacked girl, who climbed off the slope after the crime and wrapped herself in plastic to get help, is still traumatized by the incident and suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder.
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