18:20, 22 April 2026

A resident of Kaspiysk received a life sentence for the murder of a girl.

A Kaspiysk resident accused of murdering a girl. Photo: Press Service of the Republic's Investigative Committee

The Supreme Court of Dagestan convicted two local residents in the 2018 kidnapping and murder of an eight-year-old schoolgirl in Kaspiysk. The man was sentenced to life in prison, and his accomplice, a distant relative of the child, was sentenced to 12 years in prison.

As "Caucasian Knot" reported, in early April, the state prosecutor demanded a life sentence for a Dagestani resident accused of kidnapping, raping, and murdering an eight-year-old schoolgirl.

The eight-year-old Kaspiysk resident went to the store on July 29, 2018, and did not return. More than a month later, on September 9, a bag containing the child's remains was discovered in the city. On October 18, 2020, security forces detained a 36-year-old resident of the village of Levashi, suspected of murdering and raping a girl. The detainee confessed. In March 2022, the case of two Makhachkala residents accused of kidnapping and murdering an eight-year-old resident of Kaspiysk was sent to court.

The court found that in June 2018, the defendants devised a plan to kidnap an eight-year-old girl in order to extract a ransom of 2 million rubles from her relatives. The accomplice, a distant relative of the victim, provided him with a photograph and the child's address, the press service of the Dagestan courts reported today on Telegram.

On July 29, 2018, the defendant deceived the victim into a pre-selected apartment. Between July 29 and August 1, 2018, the man raped the girl while holding her in an apartment. On August 1, 2018, fearing exposure, the defendant killed the child by striking her repeatedly on the head with a heavy object. After hiding the child's body, he later dumped it in a gutter.

In September 2018, a man wrote a ransom note and planted it on the relatives of the deceased.

The case was investigated under criminal charges including kidnapping of a minor, robbery, rape, violent sexual assault, and murder.

Among all the charges, the maximum penalty of either life imprisonment or the death penalty (the use of which is moratorium in Russia) was threatened for those accused under paragraphs "b" and "k" of Part 2 of Article 105 of the Russian Criminal Code: murder of a minor, knowingly in a helpless state, coupled with kidnapping, as well as with the intent to conceal another crime.

"Considering the position of the state prosecutor, the court sentenced the convicted man to life imprisonment, and his accomplice to 12 years in a general regime penal colony," the press service said in a statement.

Translated automatically via Google translate from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/422652