On January 23, the Tashkent city Chilanzar district criminal court issued the ruling against minor Kh. Sh., 15, who molested four girls in a kindergarten, the spokesman to the Supreme Court Aziz Abidov said.
In May 2023, several parents reported that their children were being harassed by the son of the director of a kindergarten. According to them, in the afternoon, when a group of 6-year-old children went to bed, the teenager began to molest four girls.
The director called these reports a libel. In addition, she did not allow the correspondent to enter the kindergarten building and take photographs there, as well as talk with the teacher and psychologist.
At a closed session, the court, chaired by Judge Zh. Kurbanov, found Kh. Sh. guilty Forcible satisfaction of sexual desire in an unnatural form against a person known to the perpetrator to be under 14 years of age charge of the Criminal Code. Actions provided for in this article are punishable by imprisonment from 15 to 20 years.
According to Persons who committed crimes between the ages of 14 and 16 years are sentenced to up to 10 years of imprisonment for a particularly serious crime provision, the court sentenced him to 6 years of imprisonment in a correctional colony.
