Приговор при свечах / Judgment in candlelight - Владимир Анатольевич Арсентьев

a drunk Dziuban carried out her plan. After drinking together with Redkin and having an altercation out of personal hostility, she waited until he fell asleep on the couch. She took a canister of mixed AI-80 gasoline and motor base oil from the pantry in her house. With the purpose of killing Redkin with particular cruelty and inflicting particularly severe pain on him, she doused the sleeping Redkin’s head and body with the highly flammable liquid from the canister, lit a piece of newspaper and set the man on fire. Redkin’s head and clothes caught fire, and he ran outside to the front porch, where he fell, burning alive.

Thereby Dziuban inflicted on Redkin wounds incompatible with life, namely heat burns that resulted in life-threatening grievous bodily injury and had a causal connection with his death.

Considering Redkin dead, Dziuban dragged his body into the house and dumped him in the basement. Redkin was found there by the police and taken to a medical facility, where he died on the same night.

Thus, Dziuban inflicted death on Redkin with particular cruelty. Because of the heat burns of his whole body, the man developed a severe burn shock, which caused cardio-respiratory arrest and central nervous system shutdown.

The court convicted Dziuban for murdering Redkin with particular cruelty and inflicting premeditated moderate bodily injury on Zharov with particular cruelty. She was sentenced to long-term imprisonment in a general penal colony.[189]

The convicted Dziuban did not agree with the verdict and appealed against it. She cited that she murdered Redkin under the influence of a mental disorder, reportedly because Redkin reminded her multiple times how her stepfather had raped her. The reason why she inflicted injuries on Zharov was reportedly that he repeatedly accosted her sexually, threatening her with violence. Dziuban supported her claims in the cassation court.

The Judicial Board on Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation decided that Dziuban’s claims were untenable and baseless, leaving the district court’s sentence unchanged and dismissing her cassation appeals.[190]

Dziuban showed indications of organic personality disorder with some mental impairments that manifested in her poor school results, low social adaptation, propensity for alcohol abuse, increased emotional and volitional instability when drunk, and vascular pathology. Given her organic neurological microsymptoms, Dziuban also showed low intelligence, emotional and volitional instability, shallow reasoning, minor organic impairments in thinking, memory, and attention, as well as low social self-control. Besides, Dziuban had a poor genetic background – her mother abused alcohol. Dziuban had a criminal record, too. She had been abusing alcohol for two years and could not control alcohol consumption.

The method that Dziuban unsuccessfully used to defend herself against the prosecution is manifested in a woman’s view on the woman’s metamorphosis: “Every woman can develop no more than two guises during her life – her sexual guise and her business image. But at home, she may lose control and become heaven knows who.”[191] The psychology of female criminality will go to great lenghts to keep that secret. It was proven that neither Zharov, a kind and honest person, nor Redkin offended Dziuban in any way; however, they were burned alive, falling victims to her particular cruelty. Their pain and suffering were amusing to the perpetrator. She dumped her younger brother, who boiled alive in the fire, headfirst into the basement.

As we see, Dziuban’s defense was to conceal her true motive in all ways possible. I observed this shifty defense in a number of criminal cases against female defendants, in which I delivered 45 verdicts of guilty (against 45 persons).

Forty-five adult women were found guilty and convicted for crimes like murder (22), including murder attended by robbery (5), robbery (5), theft (4), including pickpocketing, fraud (2), robbery with violence (1), bribery (1), tampering with evidence (1), sexual violence (1), and other (8). Those women comprised more than 7 % of persons I convicted as a judge under general judicial procedure. I also noted an increase in particularly grave crimes committed by women – mostly out of obsessive envy, revenge for hurt pride, or anger, which contributed tremendously to the colossal reserve of hostility and fear in the society. The beast takes over the human, and evil emanates from human souls and hearts.

For instance, Gorelova, also known as Toporkova, was paroled two years before scheduled release. In the third month of her living as a vagrant, she harbored a petty grudge against Babayev, who thought nothing of it at the time. While drinking alcohol in a burnt-down house, she managed to instigate two male accomplices against Babayev, one after the other, using her sexual influence. While Babayev was away, she accused him of cooperating with law enforcement. One of her accomplices approached Babayev from the back and hit him on the head with a brick, knocking him down. The other tried to stab the victim with Gorelova’s knife but failed. Meanwhile, Babayev started coming to. Then Gorelova took the knife herself. She told her two friends to hold Babayev and stabbed him in the neck dozens of times, hewing his head off and killing him.

Gorelova pleaded not guilty and refused to testify at trial.

Babayev’s cooperation with law enforcement was not confirmed at trial. It was an invention Gorelova used to instigate her drinking companions to kill him. One of the male defendants was under Gorelova’s influence and tried to cover up for her, taking the blame for initiating Babayev’s murder because of his alleged cooperation with the police. However, the other defendant blamed Gorelova for everything, including hitting Babayev with a brick.

The court qualified the defendants’ acts as murder out of personal hostility, committed by a group of persons acting in collusion. Gorelova’s sentence was severe but nevertheless lawful, reasonable, and justified.

Gorelova/Toporkova told the forensic psychiatrists, “I have a heart of stone, I gave no quarter during the fight.” However, she had worked in a kindergarten for eighteen years…

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