Rapist released for “decency”

27th November 2009

A Polish man who raped a 53-year old woman and left her disabled for life has been released after 10 months, because “he was honest enough to plead guilty” and called an ambulance after attacking her.

In November last year, Marek Szymanski went round to neighbour Zdislawa Morzycka’s home in Wroclaw, central Poland, after hearing that her husband had been jailed.

But rather than offering condolences he instead threw himself upon the woman, raping her with such viciousness he left her partially paralysed.

Despite the mandatory sentence for rape in Poland being at least five years, he was sentenced to 3 years in prison because the judge said that Morzycka could not “remember the ...