In the Turkistan region of Kazakhstan, a court found a 35-year-old Uzbek citizen guilty of raping an underage girl and sentenced him to life imprisonment. According to local media reports, the crime was committed in mid-2024.
Court documents indicate that the man, who had come to Kazakhstan for construction work, sexually assaulted his 14-year-old neighbor, a resident of the Keles district, on several occasions.
During the trial, he did not admit his guilt, but the prosecutor demanded a life sentence, and this demand was satisfied.
According to the ruling of the specialized criminal court of the Turkistan region, he was found guilty under Part 4 of Article 120 of the Criminal Code of Kazakhstan (repeated rape) and sentenced to life imprisonment.
