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Editor’s Note: The names of the teenagers in the case are not mentioned, as Ukrainian law does not allow them to be made public. After over a year of court hearings, attorneys defending three Ukrainian teenagers convicted of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in Zakarpattia Oblast have asked the court to close the case against them. The three teenage boys committed the crime back in 2021, filmed it on camera, and posted the video online, for which the court in western Ukraine gave them only two years of probation and a fine last March. The court’sdecision caused a nationwide scandal, promp…

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