In the case of the rape of the student Sone, the defendant Ivo P testifies again at the Bratislava I Municipal Court on Tuesday. This time he answers the questions of the victim’s lawyer, Ondrej Urban. The defendant repeated that he did not remember where he first met the victim, at what time, or how she got to his house. However, he assumed that he brought her to him. He didn’t even remember what condition she was in. For the rest of the hearing, the court, at the suggestion of the injured party’s lawyer, excluded the public, who will not be present even during the hearing of the expert witness. At the same time, Urban proposed to the court to reclassify the offense of restricting personal freedom as a crime.
- Defendant Ivo P. testifies again at the Bratislava I City Court.
- The legal representative of the victim proposed reclassifying the misdemeanor as a crime.
- The police found the student intoxicated near the hospital in September 2023.
- Ivo P., accused of rape, was taken into custody by the court.
- The Constitutional Court found a violation of student Sone’s rights in January.
The police received a report about the disappearance of the student in September 2023. She was found unconscious and intoxicated near a hospital in Bratislava’s Petržalka. The investigator of the Bratislava regional criminal office charged Ivo P. from Bratislava with the crime of rape and the crime of restricting personal freedom. The court subsequently took the accused into custody.
At the end of April last year, the prosecutor of the Bratislava Regional Prosecutor’s Office stopped the criminal prosecution against Ivo P. due to his alleged mental illness and resulting insanity at the time of the crime. At that time, the court issued a preliminary order for his placement in a medical facility.
In February, the prosecutor of the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Slovak Republic canceled the decision to stop the criminal prosecution in the case of the kidnapping and intoxication of the student Sone. He also ordered the prosecutor of the regional prosecutor’s office to act and decide on the matter again. He did so following the finding of the Constitutional Court (ÚS) of the Slovak Republic, which in January found a violation of the rights of student Sone. The ÚS accepted the victim’s complaint against the suspension of the criminal prosecution of the alleged perpetrator due to insanity. He ordered the General Prosecutor’s Office to act on the matter again. The Bratislava I Municipal Court subsequently took the accused into custody. Ivo P. faces charges of rape and restriction of personal freedom.
