A citizen of Uzbekistan received eight years in a penal colony for attempting to rape a girl in a Moscow park

An Uzbek citizen received eight years in a penal colony for attempting to rape a girl in a Moscow park

In Moscow, a court sentenced a 32-year-old native of Uzbekistan to eight years of imprisonment for attempting sexual violence against a 19-year-old girl. The incident occurred in May in the Yauza Park in the northeast of the Russian capital. The girl was helped by two passersby who heard her cries and detained the attacker.

The girl was walking home after the movies, listening to music on her headphones, and did not notice the man approaching her. He began harassing her and tried to drag her into the bushes. Responding to her call for help, two passersby detained the attacker and handed him over to the police.

During questioning, the man did not admit guilt. According to him, he had drunk several cans of beer, would not have made it back to his dormitory before closing, and decided to spend the night on a park bench. He claimed he only wanted to ask the girl for directions to the metro. However, the testimony of the victim and the two eyewitnesses refuted this version.

One of the men who came to the rescue said that he intervened not only because of the girl's cries. According to him, about 20 years ago, his friend's wife died in a similar situation: she was attacked in a park, but back then no one responded to her calls for help.

The detainee was charged with assault of a sexual nature. Moscow's Babushkinsky Court sentenced him to eight years in a general-regime penal colony.