Thursday, April 24, 2025 - A mum sobbed in court as she revealed how her schoolgirl daughter was allegedly drugged and r@ped by three men who lured her into a car.
Ivan Turtak, 38, Kevin Horvath, 25, and Ernest Gunar, 27,
are accused of passing the teen around "like a receptacle" after
targeting her in an Asda car park.
The trio, who were "complete strangers", allegedly
offered her a cigarette before driving her in Horvath's Skoda to Turtak's flat
in Dover, Kent, UK
She was then moved taken to Gunar's caravan in Folkestone
where she was drugged and raped, Canterbury Crown Court heard.
The girl finally managed to escape the alleged horror ordeal
two days later, by which point her family had reported her missing.
Her mum wept as she revealed the moment, she discovered her
daughter had been allegedly "kidnapped, drugged and raped".
She told jurors: "[My daughter] was absolutely
terrified.
"She told me she wanted to die.
“She went very withdrawn, a completely different child.”
The mum, who can't be named for legal reasons, said her
partner had gone to pick up the schoolgirl after she was found in Dover wearing
different clothes to those she was last seen in
He told her the girl was allegedly attacked by three men,
prompting the mum to immediately phone the police.
She said: "The clothes she came home in were not the
clothes she was wearing when she went missing
"I made her take them off and put them in a bag for the
police. And I made her put the first urine sample in a pot.
"I knew that if I took those measures, that these men
[accused of raping her daughter] would be found."
In his evidence, the girl's dad said she described being
taken to a "dirty caravan" with "yellow curtains" where
there was a discussion about trafficking her abroad.
He told the court she managed to make her escape in the
early hours of the morning after the men fell asleep.
The dad continued: "She said she ran for ten minutes
solid. Then she saw a sign 'Welcome to Dover'."
Jurors heard previously how the three men (one of which is pictured above)
are accused of “targeting and exploiting” the girl after enticing her
into a car at the Asda.
She was then given drugs to “facilitate her compliance”, forced into
sexual acts and raped, the court heard.
The minor was also told she would be killed if she tried to run and had a
naked photo taken of her in the shower, which Turtak has admitted.
Prosecutor Hannah Llewellyn-Waters said: "We say that she was passed
around and treated effectively as a receptacle for their own sexual
gratification, and the defendants’ conduct was callous, degrading, and it was
entirely exploitative.”
After his arrest, Turtak denied any sexual activity with the girl, telling
police: “I have my own wife and I love her. I don’t do such things to
children.”
While Horvath told officers he had sex with the girl, but claimed she told
him she was 20 years old.
He has admitted three charges of rape and one of assault by penetration,
while Gunar has admitted rape.
Turtak denies r@pe of a child, while Horvath denies sexual assault of a
child. Gunar denies assault of a child by penetration, sexual assault of a
child and two offences of rape.
The trial continues.
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