15 years in prison: Dnipro toughens sentence for man who stabbed teenager on playground

In Dnipro, a man causelessly attacked teenagers on a playground and fatally wounded one of them. The Court of Appeal increased the sentence from 12 to 15 years in prison. This was reported by the Office of the Prosecutor General, writes UNN.

Under the procedural guidance of juvenile prosecutors of the Left Bank District Prosecutor's Office of Dnipro, the Court of Appeal granted the prosecutor's appeal and increased the sentence for the man who killed a teenager out of hooligan motives. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison (p. 7 part 2 of Article 115 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine)

On December 31, 2023, in Dnipro, on a playground, the convicted person causelessly showed aggression towards teenagers - he pulled out a knife and inflicted two wounds to the abdomen of one of them. The boy died in the hospital.

The court of first instance sentenced him to 12 years in prison, but the prosecutor's office appealed the verdict. The Court of Appeal agreed with the arguments of the prosecutors and increased the sentence.

Recall

Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko expressed the initiative on the need to introduce an alternative-free punishment in the form of life imprisonment for particularly serious crimes against children. He appealed to the law enforcement committee of the Verkhovna Rada with a proposal to support the relevant initiative and introduce such punishment for the murder and rape of children.

Today, life imprisonment is provided for in exceptional cases; mostly, it is about a sentence of 15 years in prison, sometimes with the possibility of reducing the term of punishment.

It should be added that the prosecutor's office is actively seeking the imposition of the maximum severe sentence - life imprisonment.

Statistics

Over the past 19 months, 67 children have been victims of intentional homicides;

531 children have suffered from sexual violence, 360 of whom are under 14 years old.