Court sentenced two thieves to reading classical literature.

Two young men were detained for stealing from cars in Odesa Ukraine.

They got into the parking lot of temporarily confiscated vehicles at night and ransacked two cars: VAZ and Volga. They stole two radio tape recorders, speakers and a gear lever.

In court, the detainees said that one of them did not have enough money to travel home to the town of Bilgorod-Dnistrovsky in Odesa region. The man worked at a construction site, but they did not pay him there. The foreman simply took his salary. Left without money, young people decided to steal something.

The defendants could have been sentenced to prison, but the court took into account their low level of intellectual development.

“The upbringing of both accused was obviously not sufficient. This is evidenced by, among other things, the language, the construction of sentences, a small vocabulary of words, the statements themselves, the inability to create of complex sentences to explain their thoughts, or rather the lack of the even the ability to construct a complex sentence in the mind.

Certainly childish, almost unreasonable for an adult, behavior is also evidenced by the circumstances of the offense, which show that when the theft was committed by the accused they had their IDs on them (passports and other documents). And, these documents were left in the backpack at the scene of the crime, ”- stated in the decision of the Malinovsky court in Odesa.

Malinovsky District Court of Odessa sentenced two thieves to reading classical literature. The list of books includes "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain, "White Fang" by Jack London and the verse by Taras Shevchenko " The days are passing, nights are passing...".

This became known from the register of court decisions.