In the Kaliningrad region, a husband and wife filmed a video for almost a year with the participation of naked neighboring children. The victims of the perverts were girls from six to 12 years old. The elders were afraid to complain to the adults, but they did not believe the younger. The crime was opened after a friend of one of the victims told her mother about what was happening. The woman reported to the police. In early June, a family of pedophiles was arrested. The journalist and photographer "Klops" visited the same village.
We have changed the names of the heroes and do not name the settlement, as required by law.
Village N. is located about 100 kilometers from Kaliningrad and not far from the regional center. A deaf place, of which there are dozens in our region. There are only a couple of streets where about 200 people live, half of them are children and adolescents.
The same type of gray houses, surrounded by vegetable gardens and sheds, century-old oaks and thickets of grass along the road. The center of the village can be recognized by the culture house with peeling paint on the walls and the only store.
"Nice people, young family"
The whole village knows about the couple, who was arrested two weeks ago. The daughter of a local resident Sophia, schoolgirl Katya is one of the victims.
Alexey and Nina Nikiforov bought an apartment in N. and moved last year. They said that they loved village life, and in Kaliningrad, for their money, they could not find housing. Nina was then 18 years old, Alexei - 35. A short, handsome guy, she is "a little strange". In general - nice people, a young family.
"In the winter of 2019, they made repairs, came to visit me, drank coffee and buns. They just got married, showed wedding photos. Nina is an orphan, raised by her grandmother. She said that she studied at the boarding school to become a pastry chef. hunched over, face dissatisfied. Maybe she was lagging behind in development. Like a gray mouse, she comes to the store, slouches her shoulders, and we all encouraged her: "Straighten up! You are young, pretty, collect your hair beautifully! "- Sophia says.
The big difference in the age of the newlyweds did not particularly bother anyone. The locals were more surprised that the newcomers did not drink. Occasionally Lesha could take a can of beer to suit his mood.
Children reached out to him
In the spring, the Nikiforovs, who had previously been in N. on short visits, finally moved to the village. We were invited to look at the repair. Many were curious - they came in, admired. Everything is beautiful, neat.
Alexey got a job in a neighboring village. In the summer he undertook to clean the bank of the river, promised that he would put things in order there. Often he took village children with him, and adults went with them.
As the locals say, the children were drawn to Alexei, "they ran after him with their tail." In August 2019, a son was born to the Nikiforovs, and Nina hospitably offered: "Come and nurse." The children ran to them in turn to roll the stroller, for the children the doors of their apartment were always open. This spring, Alexei started making a picnic gazebo in his yard. The schoolchildren helped him - they carried sand and bricks in a wheelbarrow.
"My Katya also often visited them. She loves the little ones. She told me that Aunt Nina would make a pie, then pizza, and give them tea. My daughter asked them to spend the night, but I would not let her go," says Sophia.
Mocked Milan
The first victim of Uncle Lyosha and Aunt Nina was little Milana, who had not yet attended school. This is the youngest daughter of the Stafeevs, who lived in a neighboring house and immediately became friends with the Nikiforovs. The baby came to the young couple as if they were family and stayed overnight.
The Stafeevs have three children - Milan, schoolchildren Kristina and Vadim. The spouses became godparents for the baby Nikiforovs, and Lyosha was chosen as the godfather of Milana. Vadim helped Uncle Lesha with repairs, the girls were babysitting the baby.
“At first we walked normally, and then he began to scoff at Milana,” Vadim admits. When asked how exactly, he is embarrassed: "I can't answer." He adds: Uncle Lesha intimidated children so that they would not tell adults anything.
“At first, Uncle Lesha didn’t pester Kristina, and then he began to photograph her naked and upload her to the network. He also offered me to take pictures. In clothes. But I refused.
Nobody heard her
It's hard for Stafeev Sr. to talk about what happened. He found out what happened to his daughters after a neighbor reported to the police. Many photographs and videos of Milana were found in the Nikiforovs' computer.
“Last year, my Katya said that Uncle Lyosha and Milana were“doing bad things.”They allegedly went to the lakes and Uncle Lyosha showed her something. I didn't believe it, but I warned the girl's mother. She brushed it off:“My daughter fantasizes, says nonsense “But it turns out that she was not talking nonsense, just no one heard her,” the saleswoman Sophia sighs.
"Milana is very small. She looks less than her age, like a five-year-old. A frightened girl, uncommunicative. She was afraid to spend the night with Uncle Lyosha and always tried to run home. Already in the Investigative Committee, I saw a photo and learned how this Uncle Lyosha perverted her over her," says a resident of the neighboring village of Olesya. It was she who cut the Gordian knot and reported to the police.
"I immediately dialed 112"
At the end of May, Olesya learned that Nikiforov was offering her 12-year-old daughter Masha to undress and take a picture. The girl is friends with the Nikiforovs' neighbors, through them the woman met the newcomers. We went to visit each other a couple of times. The newlyweds wanted to make new friends, complained that they had no one to communicate with.
"At first I did not notice anything unusual. The family is like a family. Several times my daughter asked them to stay, I allowed - a friend lives behind the wall, assured me - decent people. On May 31, Masha was with them and sent me a message:" Mom, I want leave here, call and tell me to go home. "I called. I come home from work, ask what happened?" Everything is fine. "And then her friend says:" Aunt Olesya, Masha wants to tell you something, but he is shy. "I ask again, and she tells me:" Uncle Lyosha and Aunt Nina offer me to take pictures of naked. He says that Nina is Viy, and if I take a picture, it will save her. And he also says that it will come in handy in my life, I will be experienced. The other girls have already agreed, and no big deal. But I said that I was still little. "And when Masha described the videos and photos of the children from the village he showed her, I was speechless!" - recalls Olesya.
Without hesitation, she dialed 112. Five minutes later, a police squad arrived at the house. The woman and her daughter were taken to the department. They wrote a statement, the girl told in detail everything she knew. Masha was examined by doctors, she underwent a forensic medical examination, as did Katya later.
I was scared that they would kill
The next day, June 1, Sophia and Katya were summoned to the police. Mother and daughter were in the city, they were urged to return to the village as soon as possible.
“On the way, I tortured my daughter - what happened? She did not confess. And when they brought us to the investigator, the psychologist was there, and they began to ask her questions, they started talking. I was dumbfounded,” Sophia recalls.
Katya said that on May 23 the Nikiforovs put the child to bed and Uncle Lyosha closed the door. Nina told the girl to undress and showed what poses she should take. It was clear from Katya's story that Nina was not doing this for the first time and her husband was not forcing her to do this.
“My daughter says that there was a baseball bat in the corridor by the door. Katya was scared - she thought that if she refused to be photographed, she would be killed. She hid her from me - she thought that we would not believe her,” continues Sophia.
Wanted to break
The Nikiforovs were detained on the same day. Many police officers came. This was a surprise for the couple. During the search, the same laptop with photos and videos was found.
The village hummed like a beehive. When the pedophile was brought to investigative actions a day later, the locals gathered at the entrance and were ready to break up their former neighbors. Six police cars drove up close to the house. About 20 officers surrounded the prisoners in a tight ring. Both were wearing body armor.
"Aleksey was calm, walking with his head down. Later they brought Nina. She stumbled at the entrance, she was rudely pushed by one of the guards. They didn't stand on ceremony with her. She was smiling in the photographs, and the girls said that it was she who persuaded them to undress and take pictures," - says Sophia.
In the Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia in the Kaliningrad region, they said that a married couple is accused under paragraph "b" of Part 4 of Art. 132 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Violent acts of a sexual nature, committed by a group of persons, with the use of violence or with the threat of its use against victims, including those under the age of 14, using their helpless state"). The man was also charged under Art. 135 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Lecherous actions"). The investigation is ongoing.
