Monday 4 July 2022 02:03 PM Paedophile's underground dungeon is discovered where he kept seven-year-old boy ... trends now
Dmitry Kopylov, 28, has been sent to a strict regime penal colony in Russia after he kidnapped a seven-year-old boy as he got out of his school bus and holding him hostage in a cellar for 52 days
A paedophile has been jailed for 19 years for kidnapping a seven-year-old boy as he got out of his school bus and holding him hostage in a bleak cellar for 52 days.
Dmitry Kopylov, 28, has been sent to a strict regime penal colony in Russia.
A video shows the grim basement where the boy was held and sexually abused.
Kopylov was charged with 62 separate crimes against this child, and another earlier victim who was not held hostage.
They included 'committing sodomy and other sexual acts against a young boy', and making and distributing child pornography.
His crimes dated back to 2015.
A judge ruled that Kopylov must undergo psychiatric treatment while serving his sentence of 19 years and 11 months in a high security prison.
The child was rescued and reunited with his parents in November 2020 following a tip off by Interpol based on intelligence from the West.
Russian special forces cut through a steel door and broke a window to enter the lair where he was held, a chilling low-ceilinged basement with bare walls, specially built to hold an abducted child.
The child was rescued and reunited with his parents in November 2020 following a tip off by Interpol based on intelligence from the West
Basement where Dmitry Kopylov held his victim. The chilling low-ceilinged basement with bare walls was specially built to hold an abducted child
A ladder leads into the basement where the boy was imprisoned. The hatch door led to an even lower level while the paedophile lived upstairs
The 'brainwashed' boy 'laughed with joy' when officers entered but later cried.
After he disappeared a huge search involving police, army and volunteers had failed to locate him.
Them, police received a tip off from Interpol, tracing the boy to the abductor's lair some 14 miles from his home in Gorki village, Vladimir region, where he had gone missing in late September.
Kopylov was snared after allegedly boasting about holding the boy in chats between paedophiles on the dark web.
The spooky underground bunker with a jail-style bed and a
