#Three Russian sisters accused of lying about ‘rapist’ father they killed

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Krestina Khachaturyan (Left), Maria Khachaturyan (Center), Angelina Khachaturyan (Right)
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Three Russian teen sisters charged with killing their physically and sexually abusive father are accused by family members of concocting the tales of abuse.

The explosive allegations against the Khachaturyan sisters were launched by their dead father’s sister and nephew in advance of their trial, which is set to begin Friday in Moscow for two of the three sisters.

Naira Khachaturyan, the aunt of Maria, Angelina and Krestina Khachaturyan, also claimed on Andrey Malakhov’s ‘Let Them Talk’, that the sisters had conspired to kill their father, Mikhail, before he planned to emigrate to Israel when all his daughters were 18, according to the Daily Mail.

“They knew they could live the way they want if they got rid of their father,” Khachaturyan said on TV. “They wanted to delete him from their lives,” she said.

Arsen Khachaturyan, Mikhail’s nephew added: “Sexual violence, other violence, there was nothing of that. The girls decided to kill their father, they conspired a while ago.”

The siblings were 17, 18, and 19 when they fatally attacked their dad with a hammer and kitchen knife as he nodded off inside their Moscow apartment in July 2018.

Fearing their lives were at risk, they waited until their dad started to doze off before bludgeoning and stabbing him to death in his rocking chair, according to their attorneys.

The Khacharutyan sisters reported the attack to police and confessed to their roles.

“The first day we met, she said she’s better off here, in jail, than living at home the way she had been,” Krestina’s lawyer Alexei Liptser said.

Last January, the sisters’ claims of years abuse at the hands of their father was confirmed by the prosecutor’s office, who even weighted downgrading their murder charges.

But despite the acknowledgment of the abuse the trio endured — which included daily beatings and being forced to perform sexual acts — prosecutors ultimately insisted the sisters should be tried for murder.

Naira, in her TV interview, claimed that medical tests conducted in an official investigation determined two of three sisters were virgins, countering their claims of sexual abuse, while the third had a secret boyfriend.

Arsen, meanwhile, said one of the sisters inflicted wounds on the other two the day of the attack to make it seem like their father attacked them first.

The nephews claims were the subject of leaked interrogation transcripts, which were verified by one the girl’s lawyers to CNN, that, in fact, show the sisters tried to harm themselves to frame their father before calling the police.

The decision to bring murder charges against them has sparked outrage among domestic violence activists in the country. More than 200,000 people have signed a petition calling for the prosecutors to drop the charges.

With Post wires