She was then given drugs including crystal meth and amphetamine, and repeatedly raped and subjected to sexual acts by the men who ‘used, abused, and discarded like trash,’ a court heard
The mum of a 12-year-old girl who was kidnapped from an Asda car park and subjected to a horrific 72-hour rape ordeal has said she has become “a completely different child” in the wake of the horrific event.
Kevin Horvath, 26, Ivan Turtak, 38, and Ernest Gunar, 27 were all jailed yesterday after a trial. The youngster had been lured into their car in an Asda car park on August 11 in Dover, Kent by Horvath and Turtak.
She was then given drugs including crystal meth and amphetamine, and repeatedly raped and subjected to sexual acts by the pair, along with Gunar. Prosecutor Hannah Llewellyn-Waters told jurors that the vulnerable youngster had been “used, abused, and discarded like trash”.
Canterbury Crown Court heard how the girl was abused across three locations: the car she was lured into, then Turtak’s flat in Dover, and a “dirty” caravan in Folkestone. The ordeal did not end until the girl was able to escape by climbing out of a window on August 13.
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“She was passed around and treated effectively as a receptacle for their own sexual gratification, and the defendants’ conduct was callous, degrading, and entirely exploitative,” Ms Llewellyn-Waters said.
The girl’s heartbroken parents have spoken out following the guilty verdict, saying their once confident and outgoing daughter has become a shadow of her former self. “She doesn’t want to do anything now. She doesn’t leave the house without me, her dad, or his dad. She won’t go out of the house other than that,” said the girl’s mother, who can’t be named to protect her daughter’s identity.
“She dragged her mattress into our bedroom when she was found. She slept in my room. She’d wake up crying and screaming in the middle of the night.”
Her parents described how they had always been protective of their daughter, keeping a close eye on where she was. Her dad said: “We’d never let her just go out. Our main thing would be getting her friends to come to us. They used to come to us a lot, didn’t they?” Her mum added: “We’d always have to make sure we knew where she was, who she was with. Normally, we’d get her friends to come round, because we’ve got a garden here.”
The girl’s parents said she was incredibly brave following her ordeal – which was made more traumatic by the invasive process of gathering evidence. Her mum described how she was “absolutely terrified” as she waited to give evidence to police.
“She was absolutely terrified. Telling me that she wanted to die. She went very withdrawn – a completely different child,” her mum said.
The mum also praised her daughter for managing to escape the trio, despite them telling her they would kill her if she tried to flee. “She was very brave to chance her arm and think, ‘I can get out of this’,” her mum said. “She said she sat there for a couple of minutes – debating whether to try it. In the end she said she ‘just knew she had to get out’ so she just went head first through the window.”
Turtak and Hovarth were each jailed for 17 years with an additional three years on extended licence. Gunar was jailed for 19 years with an additional three years on extended licence.