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  • 2018-10-16 (xsd:date)
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  • Was This Man Whipped to Death for Molesting a 2-Year-Old Child? (en)
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  • A graphic video showing a man being whipped while tied to a post is frequently shared online with the claim that it captures vigilantes performing an ISIS-style execution on a pedophile who was caught molesting a 2-year-old child. This rumor appears to have originated with a September 2016 article published on the Romanian web site Stiri Mondene but received wider attention nearly a year later when notorious purveyors of misinformation Neon Nettle and Your News Wire published a pair of articles about it in October 2017. Since then, a number of other disreputable websites have picked up on the story, including Cvikas, The Unknown But Not Hidden, and NYNews.Today, before the claim was rehashed yet again by the danfekhabar.com website in October 2018: The video (which can be seen at the bottom of this post) is real, but it does not capture a man who was whipped to death for molesting a 2-year-old. This video first received widespread attention in February 2016 and reportedly depicts an incident that had taken place two years earlier in Ukraine, involving a man named Aleskey Frumkin (the victim) and Vasily Petrovich, a Russian militant known on the social network VK.com as Fighting Olhon. The German-language Bild reported that Petrovich served as the Commander of the Armed Forces of New Russia and traveled to Ukraine in the summer of 2014 to fight fascists. According to Petrovich, the man seen being whipped in this video was tortured because he was a drug dealer, not a pedophile: Although Petrovich claimed that Frumkin was a drug dealer, we've yet to uncover any evidence that this was truly the case. Bild was also skeptical that Frumkin was a drug dealer and posited that he may have been tortured due to his support for the independence of Donetsk: It's uncertain (but likely) that this incident of torture resulted in Frumkin's death. Petrovich claimed that Frumkin was released after he was tortured, but the Ukranian man went missing in October 2014 shortly after this video was filmed: The video can be viewed below. WARNING: It contains graphic depictions of violence: (en)
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