Lithuania’s supreme court to review appeal of man convicted for exposing himself to 25 underage girls

Lithuania’s Supreme Court will examine an appeal filed by Algimantas Ulvidas, who was convicted of sexually exposing himself to 25 underage girls, the court’s representative confirmed to BNS news agency on Tuesday.

“The Supreme Court of Lithuania has accepted the cassation appeal of the convicted Algimantas Ulvidas,” said Tautvilė Merkevičiūtė, the court’s spokesperson. She did not specify the date for the hearing or the grounds of the appeal, citing the non-public nature of the case.

In April, Kaunas Regional Court upheld a six-year and nine-month prison sentence for Ulvidas in what is considered Lithuania’s largest case of its kind involving a single offender. The court found that between 2016 and 2018, Ulvidas drove the girls—all minors—to a forest in Karmėlava, where he exposed his genitals to them on at least 50 occasions.

Ulvidas is already serving a separate two-year and five-month sentence for a similar conviction involving 11 underage victims, following a guilty verdict affirmed by Kaunas Regional Court in August last year. A third case, involving three victims, was dismissed in June last year after a district court ruled he may not have known their age. A fourth case remains under review.

The convicted man has repeatedly claimed his actions were driven by a psychological compulsion to undress in public. Courts have rejected this argument, ruling that his acts were deliberate. Ulvidas has prior convictions for possessing child pornography and exposing himself to minors under 16.