Moscow, Apr 14 (IANS/RIA Novosti): Four teenaged boys have been detained in Russia's Siberia region on suspicion of raping a 12-year-old girl and leaving her naked to die in the snow, officials said.
Investigators said the girl left home Monday evening, met her friends and had some beer. The four suspects, people she was acquainted with, approached her and then raped her. They then left her in the woods. Forensic experts said the girl had died of exposure.
Passers-by found her body the next day. "The position of the body and lack of clothes showed that she had been raped," investigators said.