Americans convicted of rape adopted daughter from Russia

A court in Cherokee County, Georgia, USA convicted an American adoptive father, Michael Andrew Grizor, of raping an adopted daughter from the Russian Federation. A man sentenced to imprisonment 10 years. This was reported by the Commissioner under the President of Russia on the rights of the child Pavel Astakhov in his Twitter.

“Due to the fact that at the very first hearing Grismore pleaded guilty to violence against his Russian adopted daughter Ksenia Antonova, the court made a deal with him. He must spend 3 years in prison, and the remaining 7, with exemplary behavior, will be served on probation,” noted Astakhov, who participated in the meeting via video conference. Astakhov previously provided the American prosecutor's office with the original of Ksenia's birth certificate and an expert's opinion on falsification. “Only after this was the criminal case against Grismore resumed. Justice has been done,” the ombudsman emphasized.

In his opinion, the punishment is not severe enough in circumstances where “a man abused his adopted daughter and at the same time tried to hide the truth from the court by using a fake certificate about her age.”

The Children's Ombudsman was summoned to court as a witness in the case of 16-year-old Ksenia, a native of Kuzbass, who was systematically raped by her adoptive father. “The girl ended up in this dysfunctional family in 2009,” Abdeev said.

The trial of Michael Grismore accused of raping his adopted Russian daughter began on May 18. “This process and criminal prosecution actually became possible because of our firm position and demands to bring the rapist stepfather to justice,” Astakhov emphasized.