A 91-year-old pensioner from Dinskaya was found not guilty of indecent assault.

The court acquitted a 91-year-old pensioner from the Kuban village of Dinskaya, accused of indecent assault by teenage girls.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," the case of the 91-year-old pensioner from the village of Dinskaya was submitted to court in November 2025. However, by February 17, the trial had not yet begun; the hearing was adjourned four times.

Today, the acquittal of a 91-year-old pensioner from the village of Dinskaya, who was accused of indecent acts, came into force, an employee of the criminal cases office of the Dinsky District Court told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

"The acquittal was rendered on May 22. No complaints from the state prosecutor were received by the court within 10 days. The verdict has come into force. The hearings were held behind closed doors," he said.

According to the case file on the court's website, the case was received by the court on November 1, 2025, and the verdict was rendered on May 22, 2026. During this time, 20 meetings were scheduled, most of which were postponed for various reasons. The column "Results in relation to the (accused) person" states: "An acquittal was rendered; the defendant's actions do not constitute a crime." The charge of indecent assault (Part 3 of Article 135 of the Russian Criminal Code) carries a sentence of five to 12 years in prison.

The acquittal rate in Russia is less than 1%, lawyer Roman Klykov, who is not involved in this case, commented to a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

"They are usually rendered only in cases where the court finds serious flaws in the prosecution's evidence, concludes the defendant is innocent, or when the inconsistency of the charges becomes obvious," he said.

The defense claimed the charges were unsubstantiated.

As a reminder, the accused is a former physics teacher. His wife, also a teacher, worked as a teacher of Russian language and literature her entire life. Relatives describe the pensioner as a caring husband and loving father. "We are used to teaching our children honesty and responsibility, and now we ourselves have become victims of a monstrous misunderstanding," his wife said.

He is unable to distinguish a person from a sack of potatoes at such a distance.

According to lawyer Alexei Avanesyan, the pensioner faced pressure and threats; investigators forced him to confess. Guilt. On August 5, 2025, the pensioner's relatives stated that his health had deteriorated significantly due to the persecution. The pensioner is bedridden, and the investigation was conducted at home. However, the defense insisted that the man hadn't even seen his accusers. "I took measurements: from the tree where the elderly man relieved himself to the pier where the teenagers were standing, it's 19 meters. "Not only couldn't he see them, he's incapable of distinguishing a person from a sack of potatoes at such a distance!" Avanesyan stated.

Avanesyan also noted that the case "contains nothing but the words of four minors and medical documents about the elderly man's grave health." "We presented evidence that he was physically incapable of committing the incriminated act," the lawyer explained.

The court, at the request of the investigation, ordered an inpatient psychiatric examination, despite arguments about the defendant's grave condition. When relatives visited the pensioner in the psychiatric hospital, they discovered that he was sleeping in the hallway because there were no beds in the wards. After 23 days in the Krasnodar psychiatric hospital, the defendant's condition worsened.

The inpatient psychiatric examination showed that the elderly man "He does not suffer from any sexual disorders, including pedophilia," Alexey Avanesyan reported on October 23, 2025. On November 8, he reported that the accused had turned 91. Avanesyan died at the end of November at the age of 48, the cause of death being an aneurysm.