This six teens were found in 2010 guilty of "murdering four
people with the aim of carrying out an initiation ritual into a sect and of desecrating
the bodies of the dead," a court in the city ofYaroslavl, north-east of Moscow, said in a
statement.
The group, four of whom were minors at the
time, killed the four teenagers in June 2008, prosecutors said. They then desecrated the
bodies and stole their possessions. The dismembered bodies of the teenagers were
found buried in the forest in August that year.
All six were found guilty of murder, while four
were found guilty of desecrating the victims'
bodies. The longest sentence of 20 years went
to the man named as the group's leader, Nikolai Ogolobnyak.
The members of the gang called themselves Satanists and earlier carried out animal
sacrifices, Komsomolskaya Pravda, the Russian daily, reported, citing investigators.
They stabbed the victims and then dismembered their bodies and cooked and ate some body parts, Komsomolskaya Pravda
reported.