A young female farm worker was fed alive to a herd of pigs after she was brutally raped and beaten by a colleague out of spite against her father.
Igor Zaika, 41, admits to attacking his boss’s 17-year-old daughter, and is believed to have knocked her unconscious and pig-bitten her to death to cover up his assault.
The farm worker is accused of violently attacking the teenager while she was unconscious after punching and hitting her with a stick.
Milena had been left home alone by her parents in the Krasnoyarsk region, Russia, and was feeding the pigs when Zaika launched his attack.
Initially thought to have been attacked and killed solely by aggressive pigs, officers now say they only mauled her after she was rendered unconscious, sexually assaulted and left to die.
During a videotaped interrogation, the suspect told investigators, “I came in and there’s his daughter, the manager’s daughter… we got into an argument.”
He did not confess to the sex attack on camera, but investigators reportedly found forensic evidence.
He told how he “went up to her with a stick” and “threw a few blows… to her head.”
Milena Shevelyova (pictured) was just 17 when she was fed to pigs after allegedly being beaten and raped by a farm worker
Igor Zaika, 41, has been charged with murder after confessing to the brutal assault and is now accused of carrying out a violent assault on the teenager while she was unconscious
Milena was feeding the pigs at her home in the Krasnoyarsk region, Russia, when she was attacked
Zaika (center) is accused of committing murder with particular cruelty to conceal his violent sexual assault, and is separately accused of a violent sexual assault on an underage girl
After leaving Milena motionless on the ground during the vodka-fueled alleged attack, he grabbed her phone and ran home.
At that moment she was torn apart by the pigs.
“The man deliberately left the girl to be eaten by pigs because he knew the animals would attack the body,” said a report by news channel Readovka.
Milena’s parents had called her boyfriend Vladimir Bedny, 18, to ask how she was doing when she stopped answering her phone.
He approached the family pigsty with his torch and was sickened by what he found.
“When he turned on his torch, he saw the gruesome scene on the floor,” media outlet NGS24 reported, citing local people.
“The boyfriend ran away, vomited and screamed for help.”
He called an ambulance, but Milena had already died from blood loss after the violent mauling.
She was found with multiple wounds to her head and body from ‘pig bites’.
“All the other pigs attacked her,” according to a report from the Bad News Telegram channel.
A barn on Milena’s parents’ farm in Russia
The teenager was mauled by the animals after being knocked unconscious, sexually assaulted and left to die
Zaika had confessed to brutally beating his boss’s daughter because he “held a grudge” against her father, Russia’s Investigative Committee said.
A devastated neighbor talks to a local journalist about the ‘pretty as a doll’ victim Shevelyova
According to reports, police initially questioned him as a suspect before turning their attention to Zaika.
The media report, which quoted law enforcement sources, said: “As someone who had lived in the village all his life and worked with livestock, he fully understood that the animals could ‘finish’ the girl lying on the ground.
‘Basically he was counting on this: the pigs would mutilate the body, and everything would look like an accident.
“But modern forensics didn’t leave him a chance: investigators caught the villain.”
After leaving the pigsty, Zika says he destroyed her phone – which he stole from her – and the stick he used to bludgeon her, and burned both in an oven.
A neighbor called Vera said: ‘She was such a nice person. Always helps her parents with everything. A truly compassionate child.
‘I can’t embrace this loss! Only seventeen years old, she was such a little doll.’
Another local said: ‘It is unlikely that Milena’s parents will return to work. What a psychological trauma.’
The victim’s distraught friend posted: ‘You will forever be in my heart.’
Zaika is accused of committing murder with particular cruelty to conceal his violent sexual assault, and of a violent sexual assault on an underage girl.
It is also revealed that he has a previous conviction for a multiple stabbing in which his brother was the victim.