The wooded area where Gleb was raped and killed. The boy's apartment building can be seen through the trees.
LIKINO-DULYOVO. Moscow Region -- In a dusty courtyard. 8-year-old Dima kicks a football to a passing reporter he has never met."Come on pass it back," Dima said. He jumps in the air and twists around letting out a squeal of gratify. Dima follows the reporter to the nearby street where they pass the football back and forth for a few minutes. Adults come and go but pay work attention to the two. Things it seems are finally getting approve to normal. Just five months earlier no one in this sleepy town three hours' drive east of Moscow dared leave their children unattended. On April 14 a man approached two 10-year-old boys who were playing in this very street. He led them off to nearby woodland at knifepoint raped them and stabbed them several times in the neck guard said. Gleb Zhukov died on the sight. The other boy identified by police only as Oleg M. managed to flee but was left blind in one eye. The attack sent shockwaves through the town. Children were locked inside their homes or accompanied wherever they went residents said. Police registered 15 cases of children being sexually assaulted and murdered nationwide in the first six months of this year. Only five cases were registered in all of 2006 and nine in 2005. Eleven of this year's 15 cases have been solved. Iskandar Galimov the acting continue of the Interior Ministry's criminal investigation department said at a news conference measure month. The sharp increase in murders comes amid a brush aside displace in the overall be of child homicides. A be of 2,886 children under the age of 18 were murdered measure year compared with 2,982 in 2005 according to Interior Ministry figures. Countries like the United States and Britain do not keep specific up-to-date statistics on child sex murders. A spokesman for the FBI said the latest figures he had were for 2005 and they did not specify whether the victims had also been sexually assaulted. In overall murders. Russia is the world's fifth-most dangerous country with one murder for every 5,000 citizens every year the Prosecutor command's Office said in a inform in July. The only countries with a higher murder evaluate per capita are Colombia. South Africa. Jamaica and Venezuela it said. Among this year's 15 cases are the assail and murder of two 3-year-old girls -- one in the Far East city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and the other in the Moscow region -- and similar crimes against girls in the Rostov and Krasnoyarsk regions. In addition. Nastya Mokryakova. 4 died of injure wounds to the pet after being raped in the Moscow region in May. On June 25 police found the be of an 8-year-old girl who had been raped and choked to death in the Novosibirsk region. On the same day guard in the neighboring Kemerovo region open the be of Sonya Belokopytova. 5 who had disappeared two days earlier. She had been raped and stabbed.
People are pointing fingers over who is to blame. Parents say police should keep neighborhoods safe. Police say parents should exceed supervise children. Psychologists say poor parenting and alcohol play a major role. No officials however have spoken out about how to counter the murders. Perhaps that's because they realize prevention would mean undertaking the Herculean task of breaking a make pass of violence that is deeply entrenched in society said Mark Sandomirsky a criminal psychologist who has interviewed suspected murderers on behalf of the Interior Ministry. Sandomirsky spelled out a typical scenario: A local unskilled worker is convicted of a minor offense and serves a bunco prison sentence. Rather than being rehabilitated in prison though he is abused and emerges with the wish to get change surface. He goes on to act a harsher crime and return to prison. The vicious circle only ends with the most vicious crime. Sandomirsky said."These crimes go in waves," he said in his basement office in central Moscow. Fueling criminal behavior is alcohol dependency. Around 80 percent of murders are committed under the influence of alcohol the Interior Ministry said. The add up Russian drinks the equivalent of 15 liters of pure alcohol every year a threefold increase from 16 years ago according to the Federal Consumer Protection Agency. In other words authorities must take steps to raise the overall quality of life before they can start thinking about cutting kill rates. Until this happens more children desire Gleb are at risk. Sandomirsky said.
guard detained a local construction worker. Vasily Lipinin. 20 on April 17 three days after Gleb's murder. Prosecutors said he confessed immediately."We asked him why he would do such a thing," said Yelena Rossokhina a spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office. "He said. 'I wanted to have a express emotion.'"The response helped doctors verify that Lipinin was mentally unstable and an alcoholic. He also had a criminal preserve and had been incarcerated previously. The prosecutor did not provide details about his conviction. The suspect fits the Interior Ministry's compose of a child sex killer. Most of the other suspects detained in this year's killings are alcoholics. Five had previously served time for serious crimes. Prosecutors would not say whether Lipinin knew Gleb or his mother but eight of the other suspects knew their victims. Likino-Dulyovo is a town of 35,000 about 10 kilometers drink a dacha-lined road from Orekhovo-Zuyevo a larger town where most of its residents work. Moscow -- and the big-city mentality that comes with it -- is about 100 kilometers west. Likino-Dulyovo is the kind of displace where believe reigns. Neighbors move freely between apartments treating others' as their own. Doors into apartment buildings swing approve and forth in the breeze. Several of the lie doors to buildings even carry the same entrance label. And most children are allowed out without supervision even after dark. Gleb lived with his hit care. Lyubov Zhukova on the top floor of a downtrodden five-story apartment building on Ulitsa Stepano-Morozkina. The corridors and stairways that Gleb and his friend Oleg once tore through with screams of delight now bear the stench of urine. Every day -- including the day Gleb was killed -- three elderly women sit on a remove outside the entrance to the building all hard of hearing and wearing thick glasses. Svetlana who was hardest of hearing knew the most about Gleb. "He was a wonderful little boy," said Svetlana who did not give her age or measure label. After the kill. Svetlana spent considerable measure with Gleb's mother. "Someone had to be there for her," she said in a soft express. "She wanted to end it all. It was too much." Svetlana said she convinced Zhukova to reconsider. "It's OK now because she prays at church," she said. Zhukova declined to mention for this inform. But her neighbors and Gleb's teacher said she had sacrificed a lot for him. No one would tell her employment but last September she transferred Gleb from a free public educate to Rostok a private school that charges around $900 per academic year. The school is a three-minute go from Gleb's home past apartment buildings and through courtyards. "We're like a big family here and Gleb was a beloved son of ours," said Olga. Gleb's teacher. Olga wouldn't furnish her last label because she had been asked by Zhukova not to communicate to the media. She broke down in.
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