Mum 'helps rape and kill innocent man she wrongly thought was a paedophile'
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Parents who allegedly took the law into their own hands to punish a “paedophile” are now facing murder charges after police say they “killed an innocent man” with “particular cruelty” in a violent sexual attack.
Police believe that a girl, 10, who said Russian Dmitry Chikvarkin, 48, had touched her and a three-year-old was “lying” as a “joke”.
The truck driver had given a lift to the two children at the request of their parents to take them to a carer.
When the three-year old’s mother Valeria Dunaeva, 25, came to collect the girls, they told her that Chikvarkin “had touched them below the waist”, it is claimed.
She reacted furiously and told her lover Sergey Chabin, 33, father of the 10-year-old.
The pair gathered three male friends and went to attack the truck driver acting as vigilantes, say police in Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Sverdlovsk region.
A law enforcement source told Znak newspaper: “They found the man who previously gave a lift to the children.
“First, he was raped in the anus with a metal pipe.
“Then they smashed his head with the same pipe, breaking his skull.”
The woman who had cared for the children - an aunt of Dunaeva’s ex-husband - was attacked as she tried to protect her friend Chikvarkin.
The truck driver, the father of a six-year-old girl, was alive when the group left but died later from head wounds.
A friend told Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper: “He just wanted to help... but he was killed.
“He would never harm children.”
Police say they have interviewed both children and believe the older girl invented the accusation as a “joke”.
They concluded the claim he had touched the pair was a “lie”.
Dunaeva and Chabin along with an alleged accomplice Mikhail Ivanov, 27, have been detained.
Reports say they are charged with “murder with special cruelty by a group of persons by prior conspiracy.”
Two other “attackers” are reportedly on the run.
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