Rape Minor Models: Eminent Ukrainian Photographer Was Accused Of Sex Crimes

Rape Minor Models: Eminent Ukrainian Photographer Was Accused Of Sex Crimes
Rape Minor Models: Eminent Ukrainian Photographer Was Accused Of Sex Crimes

Video: Rape Minor Models: Eminent Ukrainian Photographer Was Accused Of Sex Crimes

Video: Rape Minor Models: Eminent Ukrainian Photographer Was Accused Of Sex Crimes
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According to police, Ktitorchuk has been forcing minors to have sex and filming it in photos and videos since 2016. Although, perhaps, he has been doing such things for many years and the number of his victims is in the hundreds. However, some spoke only now.

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In the frame one thing, behind the frame - another

Photographer Alexander Ktitorchuk was detained on November 26. The production was opened according to the statements of the parents of the injured girls. The mother of a 15-year-old girl, who was corrupted by Ktitorchuk, said that a man persuaded her daughter to have sex after a photo shoot in the summer of 2020.

“He asked me to caress him,” the woman said.

In total, the police have data on six victims. In 2020, Ktitorchuk raped two girls 12 and 15 years old, and forced others to oral sex.

“The suspect used rented apartments and a minibus converted to commit lecherous acts. He filmed some sexual acts and kept them in his own computer,”said the chief of police in the Kiev region, Andrey Nebytov.

Despite the fact that the police are now investigating episodes of this year, today his victims spoke up, who to this day live with this nightmare.

Ktitorchuk noticed 27-year-old Svetlana Koval at the competition for models “Chance. Model.ua” from the TV channel “Inter”, where he was a member of the jury, and invited her to an individual photo session. It was in 2004, Svetlana was seventeen then. The girl recalls that she considered Ktitorchuk a professional and a "photography guru", but the studio turned out to be his apartment, and the shooting turned into sexual harassment. First, the photographer asked to pose topless, and then began to touch her without permission.

“And then I remember how he already penetrated me with his finger,” the girl said.

After that, Svetlana recalls, the photographer pulled her to the second floor, where he had a bed.

“The forces were unequal, and soon we were in his bed. At that moment I was praying madly. I prayed to God to do a miracle and protect me. I asked this bumpkin to stop. She said a hundred times: "Please don't!" She cried and asked. He put me on my side, and he lay down facing me. I remember with horror I felt his cock touching my trembling body. Suddenly he froze. And I jumped out of bed and ran down the stairs”, - Svetlana shared, she told about the case only to her sister and several friends.

A similar story was told by Elena Rosne from Lugansk.

“In the fall of 2003, when I was 16 years old and I really was a pure and naive girl who never even kissed anyone, the project“Chance. Model.ua”came to our city, and I, together with my girlfriends, could not miss such a great chance to appear on TV. Before the casting, I intercepted Alexander Ktitorchuk getting out of my car, gave him my demo in the hope that he, with his connections in show business, would pass it on to someone and they would hear me. However, this never happened. But after I didn’t get through, the eminent photographer came up to me, told me not to get upset, and gave me his business card, asking him to call him that evening. I called,”says Elena.

According to her, he called her every day, read poetry and promised to help her make a career as a model. And the girl fell in love with him, despite the age difference of more than 20 years. Once he invited her to Kiev for the New Year, where she spent two days and one night.

“I’ll only say that after what happened to me in Kiev, I couldn’t come to my senses for six months. I barely finished school. I didn't want to live,”says Elena.

A few years later, Ktitorchuk found her again.

“He offered a lot of money for me to look for him girls 5-8 years old for sex, photos and videos. Of course, I refused, but he and his assistant continued to persuade me and then threaten me,”she recalls.

And, as the girl explains, she has never addressed anywhere in so many years only because she did not believe that there is a ruling on the rich, influential and famous people.

“I thought that they had their own people and connections everywhere. But all the years she asked God to punish Alexander according to his merits,”Elena said.

She says she is ready to testify against the photographer, to tell the investigator everything. And also advised to show it to psychiatrists.

Bohemian photographer

56-year-old Ktitorchuk is engaged in photography for more than 30 of them. He is called one of the most stellar Ukrainian photographers, and all because he has shot many stars of Ukrainian show business since the 2000s: Ani Lorak, Asia Akhat, Tina Karol, Nadezhda Meikher, Kuzma Skryabin and Olga Gorbacheva, Potap and Nastya Kamenskikh, Natalia Mogilevskaya and Vlada Yama.

For a long time, Ktitorchuk lived on the personally converted steamer "Saint Andrew". There he also arranged photo shoots and lectured. In 2014 he founded the Art-Pier gallery near the Postal Square in Kiev. In 2018, Ktitorchuk became the director of the abandoned municipal cinema "Bratislava" in the capital Obolon and began to restore it. Soon he opened a creative laboratory there, gave lectures, master classes and exhibitions. It was in "Bratislava" that the police detained Ktitorchuk.

Ktitorchuk loved to take portraits and photographs of nude models. His photographs are mostly young girls. Ktitorchuk does not hide the fact that he often brought the models to tears, exerted psychological influence and violence on them, and considers this to be part of the creative process.

In an interview in 2012, Ktitorchuk said that he sleeps with many of his models, and called himself a "womanizer". At the same time, he admitted that photography for him is "access to a woman."

“When I first started photographing, I wanted two things: make money and have sex. Even then I understood that it is easier for a man with a camera to solve these problems,”he said.

There were defenders

Some of his models and colleagues from show business stood up to protect Ktitorchuk. One of these is the producer of Masha Goya, Mushmellow, Bryats-Band and others, former husband of Ani Lorak Yuri Thales.

“There is a queue for Ktitorchuk for a month, or even more, to get to a photo session, why should he molest someone, if the girls even pay him money so that he can take pictures of them, and in any form. They themselves stick to him like honey. All I can say about Sasha is a master of his craft! I do not believe! Thales said.

According to his version, either they are digging under the deputy who gave him the management of the cinema building, or they want to squeeze this building.

“They cannot do this documentarily, but it’s easier to fabricate a little kid seduction business,” the producer wrote on his Facebook page.

However, after Thales was hinted that he began to patronize Ani Lorak when she was barely 14 years old, and that they also had a huge age difference, the producer removed his post.

Singer Petya Cherny, as well as some models of the photographer, justified Ktitorchuk. The latter assured that he only photographed naked adults and never corrupted models, and he was never interested in pornography as a direction.

Ktitorchuk himself also denies guilt, calls his detention a theatrical performance and came to court to choose a preventive measure for him without his belongings, he was sure that he would be allowed to go home. However, the court chose a preventive measure for the photographer Aleksandr Ktitorchuk - two months behind bars without the right to bail.

The photographer is now in a pre-trial detention center. How things will turn out further is anyone's guess. Usually, cases where people with connections are involved do not end with anything - they fall apart even at the stage of the investigation.

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