A group of 4 Russian teenagers have been arrested by the police for sexually abusing a young girl and posting her unclad images on the social media platform.
The teenage boys and their victim
Some Russian teenage boys abducted a 14-year old girl, stripped her of her clothes and molested her for several hours as they took photos which they flaunted on the social media.
Police said that the victim suffered internal injuries and is still psychologically traumatised following the alleged attack. The teenagers were accused of raping the girl with foreign objects after stripping her naked.
They are also accused of forcing her to drink a powerful vodka-based drink before carrying out the attack. One of the pictures showed the victim stripped naked, lying next to four grinning boys and one smiling girl. One of the suspects even posted a message on social media saying: "There is no law for us."
However after images of the attack emerged online, the boys were arrested and will now be questioned by police officers in the Russian city of Pskov.
And while the alleged accusers are all too young to face jail under Russian law, Vladimir Putin's children's ombudsman Pavel Astakhov is calling for exemplary punishments following public outrage.
He said: "... they should be sent to 'special closed boarding schools with strict rules and compulsory labour' for a term of three years".