The mother agreed to a 3-year suspended sentence, but the court did not approve the agreement – she was helping her friend
Plovdiv resident Petar Chernev, who brutally and humiliated his girlfriend Stella’s 5-year-old child for a month and a half, hopes to get away with a sentence of less than 5 years and 8 months in prison.
According to “24 Chasa” information, the prosecutor’s office offered him an agreement with this punishment, but he decided it was too much and refused. Chernev does not want to give explanations, but he is ready to admit that he mistreated little Adrian in the way the prosecution described what happened. That would have guaranteed him a one-third sentence reduction.
There are a total of six charges against him
– for domestic violence, coercion, threats and degrading treatment, the maximum penalty for which is 10 years in prison. “In this case, I do not see a single mitigating circumstance and I will ask for a very high sentence,” said the prosecutor in the case, Dimitar Kostov.
The hearing in the case will be on October 29, and then it will become clear whether the sentence after the one-third reduction will be lower than the 5 years and 8 months in prison proposed by the state prosecution. Petar Chernev is a drug addict and has already been convicted.
On the same date, the district court in Plovdiv will have to rule on the mother, Stella Alexieva, who is
accused of inflicting moderate bodily harm on her child
together with your partner. She pleaded guilty and the case against her was separated into another case where the negotiated settlement of 3 years probation with 60 months probation was approved, but surprisingly the court refused.
“The composition did not agree with the amount of the punishment, but with the role of the mother in what happened. According to the court, she is an assistant to her friend Petar Chernev. His defense objected to this, and in order for an agreement to be approved, all parties in the process must agree”, Alexieva’s lawyer Rositsa Draginova explained to “24 Chasa”. Thus, the two will again stand together before the court.
Stella left her husband Venislav, with whom she lived in Germany, and soon after returning to our country in 2023, she moved in with Petar Chernev. The stepfather believed that he should be actively involved in the upbringing of his stepson, and he was often scolded for all sorts of things.
The torture began in mid-November of this year.
Adrian was repeatedly beaten by Petar Chernev, insulted with the rudest words, called “monkey”, made to beg him not to kill him. All this was captured on video clips.
Stella Alexieva did not react and did not try to protect her son. She was working and it is not excluded that she was not a direct witness of all forms of violence, but the special representative of the child, lawyer Vasil Popov, justifiably asks if she did not see the traces of the violence.
He is adamant that 3 years probation cannot be an adequate punishment for her. The mother certainly knew about the most severe head injury, from which part of the boy’s hair fell out, because she and Peter smeared the bald spot with all kinds of medicines. However, the wound became infected, but they still did not take him to a doctor. This lasted until January 8 of this year, when Stella’s sister saw the serious condition of her nephew and filed a report. Stella Alexieva and Petar Chernev were detained. At the moment, she is free on recognizance, he is still in custody.
The boy is with his father in Germany, where psychologists are working with him. According to the latest information, there is no evidence that he has autism, as was claimed when the case came to light. However, he has two operations ahead – one of them is on the head, where the scars must be removed and hair transplanted.