Police
sources in Monchegorsk, Russia, who spoke to “The Mirror” said the 21-year-old
in question opened the coffin of a 39-year-old woman, in the far north region
of Murmansk.
The
21-year-old man has been arrested by police for allegedly vandalising a grave
and raping the newly-buried corpse of a woman.
The man whose
name has not been given out, is said to be from the neighbouring region of
Arkhangelsk. Officials say a criminal case has been opened under an article of
the Russian criminal code on desecration of the dead and their burial places.
Under the
law, the maximum punishment would be three months in prison, or a fine of up to
N125,000. Meanwhile, the crime is the second case of a sexual attack on a dead
woman in the north of Russia this year.
In the first
case which took place in the Komi Republic, two men were jailed for raping the
body of a young woman in February. Monchegorsk was established by Stalin as a
nickel and copper mining town and has a population of about 45,000.
The sexual
attraction or involvement in sexual acts with corpses is called necrophilia or
thanatophilia. It is otherwise known by the American Psychiatric association as
paraphilia. The term was first used in 1850 at a lecture by Belgian alienist
Joseph Guislain.
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