Conviction Divination and fortune-telling services Ufa, Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia · 2018

Bashkortostan: a 13-year-old alone at home told there was a curse on her mother, and made to fetch the jewellery box

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

a woman who rang the doorbell of a flat where she knew no one and, finding a child alone, told her there was a curse on her mother which had to be removed

Organization

Kalininsky District Court of Ufa (Калининский районный суд г. Уфы)

Archive classification

This is the archive's application of its published inclusion test. The cited record appears below.

The authority is the claimed capacity to remove a curse, and this judgment records it being directed at a child. The construction is precise: the curse was said to be on the mother, not on the girl, so that handing over the jewellery box presented itself to a thirteen-year-old as an act of help rather than a transaction she was not entitled to make. The court found the defendant exploited the child's trustfulness. No threat was needed and no payment was discussed — the claim supplied a reason for a child alone in a flat to fetch her mother's valuables and give them to a stranger, which is the whole of what the offence required.

Curse or witchcraft threat
Spiritual healing or treatment

Scope decision

The defendant is not named. Russian courts anonymise published judgments as a matter of course, and this record identifies the case by number and court — case no. 1-66/2019, Kalininsky District Court of Ufa — in accordance with CODEBOOK §10. THE CHILD IS NOT NAMED HERE. The published judgment's anonymisation fails in her case, leaving her given name visible in two passages; that name is deliberately not reproduced, and she is described only as the complainant's thirteen-year-old daughter. The complainant is likewise unnamed. The child was the person deceived; the property belonged to her mother, who is the complainant and in whose favour the civil award was made. The record is dated to the year of the offence, 2018, rather than the judgment date of 15 January 2019; the exact offence date is redacted in the published text as ДД.ММ.ГГГГ. One line of the itemisation in the published text is visibly corrupted, a weight running into an unrelated phrase; the individual figures are therefore reproduced only as far as they are legible and the total of 356,840 roubles is taken from the court's own statement of it, which is repeated in the civil award. The three-year-six-month term is the aggregate under ч.5 ст.69 with an earlier Voronezh judgment whose subject matter is not stated here; two years six months is what was imposed for this offence. The judgment states an appellate route but records no appellate outcome, and none was found.

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2019-01-15 · conviction and sentence at first instance

Kalininsky District Court of Ufa, Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia (Калининский районный суд г. Уфы). The defendant, anonymised in the published judgment as ФИО1, was convicted of fraud causing large-scale damage to a citizen under ч.3 ст.159 of the Criminal Code. The court found that at about 14:40 she rang the doorbell of a flat where she was not known; that the complainant was at work and the door was opened by her thirteen-year-old daughter; that, taking advantage of the child being alone in the flat, the defendant entered and, under the pretext of removing a curse from the child's mother, told the child to bring her mother's valuables; that the child, misled, allowed her to take the jewellery box; and that, exploiting the child's trustfulness and on the stated basis that the jewellery was needed for the removal of the curse, she put the items in her pocket and shortly afterwards left. The judgment itemises the pieces taken by weight and standard — sapphire and diamond earrings, rings, pendants, crosses, chains and bracelets, together with 26.67g of scrap gold — totalling 356,840 roubles. She was sentenced to two years six months' deprivation of liberty and, by partial addition under ч.5 ст.69 with a sentence of the Leninsky District Court of Voronezh, to a final term of three years six months in a general-regime correctional colony. The complainant's civil claim was granted in full and 356,840 roubles awarded.

Documented coercion mechanisms

a cold approach at a stranger's door, and the offence proceeding once the defendant saw the only person at home was a child
the curse attributed not to the child but to her absent mother, so that fetching the jewellery presented itself to the child as helping her
the child instructed to bring her mother's valuables, and the jewellery box handed over on that basis
the court's finding that the defendant exploited the trustfulness of a minor — «пользуясь доверчивостью несовершеннолетней»

Cited record

Sources

court of record criminal judgment Приговор № 1-66/2019 от 15 января 2019 г. по делу № 1-66/2019, Калининский районный суд г. Уфы (Республика Башкортостан) — Уголовное.: The full text of the criminal judgment, read directly from the Russian judgments database sudact.ru. The court records that the defendant «позвонила в дверной звонок ранее незнакомой ей квартиры», that «Потерпевшая Потерпевший №1 в это время находилась на работе и отсутствовала в квартире» and that the door was opened by her «несовершеннолетняя... 13 лет». It continues: «Осуществляя задуманное и воспользовавшись, что несовершеннолетняя в квартире одна, подсудимая прошла в квартиру и под предлогом «снятия порчи» у матери, велела несовершеннолетней... принести ценные ее вещи. Несовершеннолетняя, будучи введенная таким образом в заблуждение разрешила ФИО1 взять в руки шкатулку с драгоценными украшениями матери». The defendant then, «пользуясь доверчивостью несовершеннолетней... и под предлогом для использования этих украшений для «снятия порчи», положила их в карман и вскоре ушла из данной квартиры». The itemised total is «а всего украшений на общую сумму 356 840 рублей», and the judgment records «крупный материальный ущерб на общую сумму 356 840 рублей». The operative part convicts under ч.3 ст.159, imposes two years six months, and by partial addition under ч.5 ст.69 with a judgment of the Leninsky District Court of Voronezh sets a final term of «три года шесть месяцев лишения свободы с отбыванием наказания в исправительной колонии общего режима», with the civil claim granted in full.

Source provenance

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Source and tier basis: https://sudact.ru/regular/doc/MIcP71SLOHlO/ Corpus classification: court-of-record; evidentiary role: criminal-judgment.
Retrieval: 2026-07-29 · Preserved; Bound by Fear research cycle 2026-07-29 (Russian-language sweep; full judgment read via the browser pane; the doorbell approach, the child alone in the flat, the curse attributed to the absent mother, the instruction to fetch the valuables, the exploitation-of-trustfulness finding, the stated total and the aggregated custodial term taken verbatim from the judgment; the child's given name is exposed by the court's failed anonymisation and is deliberately not recorded)

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