The mother of a 12-year-old girl who was abducted from an Asda parking lot and endured a horrifying 72-hour rape ordeal has expressed how her daughter has undergone a significant transformation after the traumatic incident.
Kevin Horvath, 26, Ivan Turtak, 38, and Ernest Gunar, 27, were sentenced to prison following a trial. The girl was enticed into their vehicle at an Asda parking lot in Dover, Kent on August 11 by Horvath and Turtak.
She was then given narcotics, including crystal methamphetamine and amphetamine, and was repeatedly assaulted and forced into sexual acts by the duo, along with Gunar. Prosecutor Hannah Llewellyn-Waters informed the jurors that the vulnerable girl had been “exploited, mistreated, and discarded like garbage.”
Canterbury Crown Court was told of the girl’s abuse at three locations: the car where she was enticed, Turtak’s apartment in Dover, and a squalid caravan in Folkestone. The nightmare ended only when she managed to escape by climbing out a window on August 13.
“She was used as a mere object for their own pleasure, and the defendants’ actions were heartless, degrading, and completely exploitative,” Ms Llewellyn-Waters stated.
The devastated parents of the girl shared their feelings after the verdict, expressing how their once confident and sociable daughter has become a mere shadow of her former self. “She refuses to engage in activities now. She won’t step out of the house without me, her father, or his father. She won’t venture out alone,” mentioned the girl’s mother, who remains anonymous to protect her daughter’s identity.
“She brought her mattress into our bedroom when she returned. She slept in my room. She would wake up in the middle of the night crying and screaming.”
The parents described their vigilant nature in safeguarding their daughter, always monitoring her whereabouts. Her father remarked, “We never allowed her to go out alone. Our focus was to have her friends come over. They used to visit us frequently, didn’t they?” Her mother added, “We always made sure we knew where she was, who she was with. Usually, we would have her friends visit us, as we have a garden here.”
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