A Russian Mother of Many Children Wanted to Get Rid of Her Belarusian Cohabitant, So She Reported Him to the Police as a Pedophile
But during the investigation, the children confessed that their mother had persuaded them to lie — that their father allegedly walked around naked and molested them. A criminal case was then opened against her instead.
A clever Russian woman devised a foolproof — as she thought — scheme to ruin her cohabitant's life. Sviatlana Somava, a mother of many children from the town of Kholm, Novgorod Oblast, Russia, went to the police department and reported that her Belarusian cohabitant undressed their three young daughters and exposed his genitals to them.
If the man had been imprisoned, he would not only have received an astronomical sentence and unbearable prison conditions, but would also have been deported from Russia afterwards. In principle, this was exactly what she wanted.
Police officers noticed that Sviatlana's story wasn't very smooth, so they warned her about criminal liability for making a false report, but she insisted on her words.
They had to start an investigation.
When the children were interviewed in the presence of a child protection specialist, all three girls stated that their father had never touched them or walked naked in front of them, and that their mother herself had asked them to speak about 'molestation'.
Only after this did the woman confess to the investigators that she had fabricated the accusation to permanently get rid of her cohabitant: she feared that with a normal deportation for illegal stay in Russia, he would simply return later.
Sviatlana didn't like that recently he had started abusing alcohol and was not working — essentially living off child benefits. When sober, he treated the children normally — he didn't hit or offend them. But when drunk, he provoked conflicts and made scandals. Previously, she had left him several times to stay with her mother, but always returned. Eventually, she decided he wouldn't change and wanted to get rid of him permanently.
According to witness testimonies, the woman's acquaintance gave her the idea to contact the police, advising her to file a report specifically for deportation because the man was a citizen of Belarus. But Somava herself decided to go even further.
As a result, a case was opened against Somava herself — under Part 2 of Article 306 of the Russian Criminal Code for a false report accusing someone of a particularly serious crime. In March 2024, she was sentenced, but below the lower limit — a fine of approximately $300, payable over six months.
The fate of the Belarusian man, who was falsely accused of pedophilia, is not separately described in the verdict. What is definitely known is that he was still going to be deported from Russia for illegal stay. The man was placed in a temporary detention center for foreign nationals.
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