2013 08 26

State-protected witness and player in pedophilia case Laimutė Stankūnaitė leaves Lithuania

State-protected witness Laimutė Stankūnaitė and her pre-teen daughter have left Lithuania, the Lietuvos Rytas daily reports.
Laimutė Stankūnaitė
Laimutė Stankūnaitė / Juliaus Kalinsko / 15min nuotr.
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She will reside in a foreign country under a different name and already memorized her new biography while still in Lithuania.

Stankūnaitė said she was leaving the country after all Lithuanian legal institutions declared her, late Andrius Ūsas, and other victims innocent in the pedophilia case and the state made arrangements for her and her daughter to be able to lead a safe and normal life abroad.

In April, Vilnius Regional Court upheld the non-guilty verdict in Ūsas' case. The ruling came into force after neither parties appealed to the Supreme Court.

Stankūnaitė and her daughter were put under state protection following the 2009 events in Lithuania's second-largest city of Kaunas when her former partner Drąsius Kedys allegedly shot Judge Jonas Furmanavičius and Stankūnaitė's sister Violeta Naruševičienė whom he accused of having links with pedophiles.

In March, Stankūnaitė turned to court, asking it to stop state protection but later withdrew her request.

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