A man in Pavlodar has been sentenced to life in prison for sexually abusing his underage stepdaughters and infecting them with HIV, the website infohub.kz reports.
According to investigators, the Pavlodar man began living with a woman who has two daughters in 2018. Both girls suffer from intellectual disabilities.
In December 2025, the mother left the children in her partner's care while she was away. He began drinking alcohol and, a couple of hours later, molested his 10-year-old stepdaughter. An hour later, he also abused the older girl, who was 11.
It later emerged that the man was HIV-positive and had infected the victims through sexual contact. He was sentenced today.
"For the aggregate of the crimes, the final sentence is life imprisonment with lifelong deprivation of the right to hold teaching positions and positions involving work with minors. The sentence is to be served in an institution of the penal system of special security," said Zhanna Nygybayeva, judge of the inter-district criminal court of Pavlodar Region, reading the verdict.
The criminal case was heard under two articles, and the court imposed life imprisonment under both. The verdict has not yet entered into legal force.