THREE Slovakian men who drugged and raped a schoolgirl after snatching her from an Asda car park have been jailed for a total of 53 years.
Ivan Turtak, 38, Kevin Horvath, 25, and Ernest Gunar, 27, passed the 12-year-old girl around “like a receptacle” for their sexual pleasure after snatching her from the supermarket car park on August 11, 2024.
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The vile trio, who were “complete strangers”, had “targeted and exploited” the victim after spotting her alone.
They then went on to take her to a caravan when they plied her with drugs – including crystal meth – before subjecting her to rape and other horrific sexual acts.
The group also made threats to kill her if she tried to leave or raise the alarm.
Today, the evil trio were sentenced to a combined 53 years in prison.
In June, Horvath was convicted of sexual assault of a child under 13, after previously admitting three counts of rape and assault by penetration.
Turtak was found guilty or raping a child under 13, having admitted taking indecent photos of a child.
Gunar was convicted of two charges of rape of a child under 13, after he previously pleaded guilty to one charge of rape of a child under 13.
Canterbury Crown Court heard the group had lured the schoolgirl into Horvath’s car with the promise of a cigarette.
They then drove her to Turtak’s flat in Dover before she was taken to Gunar’s caravan in Folkestone.
It was at this caravan that vile sexual acts were performed on the schoolgirl.
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The trio took a photo of the young girl standing naked in a bathtub while she was kept there.
The horror only came to an end when the schoolgirl made a daring escape out of a window.
She was found wearing different clothes by police three days after she was taken.
Speaking out in June, the victim’s mum explained how her daughter had been traumatised by the trio.
She said: “She doesn’t want to do anything now.
“She doesn’t leave the house without me, her dad, or his dad. She won’t go out of the house other than that.
“She dragged her mattress into our bedroom when she was found. She slept in my room.
“She’d wake up crying and screaming in the middle of the night.”
Speaking of the moment she managed to escape, her mum said: “She was very brave to chance her arm and think, ‘I can get out of this’.
“She said she sat there for a couple of minutes – debating whether to try it. In the end she said she ‘just knew she had to get out’ so she just went head first through the window.”
Her mum also sobbed as she told how officers knocked on her door to reveal what the schoolgirl had been through.
She said: “I thought it was her coming home.”
Her parents say she has been incredibly brave following her ordeal, which was made more traumatic by the invasive process of gathering evidence.
The girl was forced to endure intimate medical examinations – forgoing baths or showers.
She also underwent stringent medication regimes and blood tests to reduce the risk of her contracting a deadly infection like HIV or hepatitis.
