Politics & Government
Former Lithuanian Judge Held In Chicago Wants Story Told: Report
Neringa Venckiene left Lithuania in 2013 after exposing an alleged ring of influential pedophiles that involved her younger niece.
CHICAGO, IL — A year and a half after former Lithuanian judge Neringa Venckiene's arrest, she remains at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago, facing extradition and waiting for an asylum case hearing, now postponed until 2022, the Northwest Herald reported. According to the news report, Venckiene said she has no regrets since her escape from Lithuania after exposing an alleged ring of influential pedophiles that involved her younger niece.
Venckiene and her son lived in Crystal Lake after moving to the country in 2013, and according to the Northwest Herald, she said she worries about him and her family, but wants her story told.
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In 2018, Venckiene told The Associated Press from jail in her first interview since fleeing Lithuania in 2013 that she feared she'll be killed by people in Lithuania she angered over the accusations of pedophilia. She added: "I never want to go back to Lithuania," according to AP.
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