Russian Goth Rocker & Accomplice Jailed For Eating Teenage Girl in Russia: We 'Were Hungry'

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2 Men Jailed For EATING Teenage Girl in Russia: We 'Were Hungry'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/06/2-men-jailed-for-eating-t_n_565459.html

ST. PETERSBURG — A Russian court has convicted two men of murdering and eating a 16-year-old schoolgirl in January.

The St. Petersburg City Court says it sentenced a 21-year-old Goth-rock musician to 19 years in a maximum-security prison.

It says his 20-year-old accomplice was sentenced to 18 years in a maximum-security prison.

The court says in a statement released Wednesday that the musician lured his victim to his apartment building, where he and his friend drowned her in a bathtub and cooked parts of her body in an oven.

The men pleaded not guilty, and in earlier testimony they said they had killed the woman because they "were hungry."

[Statistical]

1. How exactly do you plead not guilty and then use a defense of "we were hungry" (admitting guilt)

I mean it would be like a Rapist claiming "not guilty" because he/she was horny.

19 years in prison. Looks like the "hungry" defense is a bust.

[Baalath]

7. They'll be out by the age of 40..goodness

[RaleighNCDUer]

9. OTOH, that's in a Russian prison.

Makes our prison system look like a string of resorts.

They likely won't live to their release date. The mob controls the prisons and they'll take in murderers and gangsters and human traffickers, but I don't see them being accepting of admitted cannibals.

[snooper2]

2. tempting to post reply....

I better just leave this one alone :spank:

[Kalyke]

3. Only 19 years?

I admit I don't know diddly about the Russian court system, but I would have thought life without parole would have been a given when one considers the nature of this crime and the treatment of the body afterward.

[Berry Cool]

4. Yeah.

Not to mention which...um, their only alternative when "hungry" was to kill and eat someone?

[BlueInMass]

5. They only got 19 yrs, but...

They did have to eat all of their broccoli also. And no dessert.

[superduperfarleft]

10. Russan prisons make our prisons look like country clubs.

I'd be seriously surprised if these guys make it out alive.

[HopeHoops]

6. They don't have pizza delivery available in St. Petersburg?

:shrug:

But DAMN that OP made it tempting to respond another way. :evilgrin:

[Brickbat]

8. That poor girl, and her poor family.

The young men will not do well in prison.

[AngryAmish]

11. Give a man a girl they can eat for today...

[Berry Cool]

12. Well, I should have known people on DU would make a joke out of this.

It's all just so funny...:sarcasm: