Neringa Venckienė was a Lithuanian Judge whose 5-year-old niece, Deimantė Kedytė claimed to have been SAd by government officials and her mother's friend.
The men were later determined to have allegedly been Andrius Ūsas, a businessman and advisor to the Speaker of Parliament, Judge Jonas Furmanavičius, and Aidas', a man that has only ever been identified by his first name.
On Oct. 5, 2009, Judge Jonas Furmanavičius and a woman, who wasn't Deimantė's mother, were murdered. At the time, Lithuanian police said that the shots had been fired from a white VW transporter van, which was allegedly owned by the company that Deimantė' father, Drąsius Kedys, worked for at the time.
One of Kedys' former friends, Mindaugą Žalimą, a former police informant, stated that the police knew that the killings had been planned and they did nothing to stop them. It was announced by prosecutors via media outlets throughout the country that Deimantė's father's DNA was found on the murder weapon, however, later on, prosecutors retracted those statements, claiming to the public they had made a mistake, and that no DNA evidence was found. In 2010, Kedis was found dead. A gun was found near his body, which, according to prosecutors, was allegedly used in the October 2009 double murder. Kedys' death, very suspiciously, according to the authorities in Lithuania, was caused by vomiting due to alcohol abuse. Some close to the case, have stated that this manner of death was completely fabricated, an that it appeared that he was actually beaten to death.
In June of 2010, Andrius Ūsas, was also found dead. They stated that he died of natural causes, even though his body was found laying in a few inch deep puddle of water right near his four-wheeler; his helmet wasn't on his head, but was found near him.
Deimantė was testifying against her own mother for facilitating the abuse, and yet the court ordered Neringa to give her back to her. Deimantė refused to return, stating that she was afraid of being abused again. Neringa tried to prevent this, which was considered illegal except for the fact that they had parliamentary immunity.
Way of the Courage - This resulted in massive protests against the Lithuanian government, both in Lithuania and at Lithuanian embassies all across the world. Naringa resigned from her position as a judge and founded a new political party, Way of the Courage, which elected Naringa to the parliament in 2012; they won seven seats, even though they had zero funding. Naringa promised that she was going to reform the court and political system; her main aim was to enforce stricter punishments on citizens for corruption charges and anything related to or the abuse of children.
The prosecutor general asked the parliament to remove Naringa's legal immunity; in April 9, 2013, liberal, socialist, and conservative parties all voted in favor of this, prior to any evidence of wrongdoing ever being presented, and before the ruling of the parliamentary commission that was supposed to investigate the matter. 80 different MPs, government officials in Lithuania, supported the removal of Naringa's legal immunity.
Naringa fled to the US in 2013 due to death threats, an attempt on her life at a rally, and her parliamentary immunity being removed. Once she found out that there was a warrant out for her arrest on charges in Lithuania, she turned herself in and was jailed in 2018. As part of the extradition treaty that was signed between the US and Lithuania in 2001, people who are accused of crimes in Lithuania are not allowed to offer counter evidence in US courts regarding any of the charges by Lithuania or make a case for Lithuania's political motivation. Naringa was arrested in Chicago and extradited back to Lithuania where she was immediately detained. In 2021, Naringa was found guilty on all charges and sentenced to one year and nine months in prison; she was released, as time already served under arrest exceeded the sentence, and was ordered to pay €6,800 to the government for extradition expenses, €6,300 to Deimantė's mother and €3,500 to the officer and bailiff. Naringa appealed and lost her appeal case in January of 2022; she later appealed to the supreme court of Lithuania in May.Deimantė Kedytė disappearance - According to information from 2020, Deimantė Kedytė is registered in the UN as missing in Lithuania. Lithuania did not respond to the UN's inquest regarding the location of Deimantė or whether she's alive or not. The UN included her in their international search for missing persons, but no one knows if she's alive or dead.
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