V 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1107 
For the relief of Judge Neringa Venckiene, who the Government of Lithuania 
seeks on charges related to her pursuit of justice against Lithuanian 
public officials accused of sexually molesting her young niece. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 7, 2019 
Mr. SMITH of New Jersey introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
For the relief of Judge Neringa Venckiene, who the Govern-
ment of Lithuania seeks on charges related to her pur-
suit of justice against Lithuanian public officials accused 
of sexually molesting her young niece. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Give Judge Venckiene 
Her Day in Court Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
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(1) Judge Neringa Venckiene fled to the United 
States in 2013 and requested political asylum after 
a 5-year battle in Lithuania to secure justice for her 
4-year-old niece, Deimante Kedyte, who reported 
that she was being sexually molested by Lithuanian 
government officials while in her mother’s care. 
(2) Deimante Kedyte’s claims of sexual moles-
tation were evaluated by court-ordered psychologists 
and psychiatrists and deemed to be credible. 
(3) Deimante Kedyte accused of sexual molesta-
tion her mother and 2 associates of her mother, an 
assistant to the Speaker of the Parliament and a sit-
ting judge. 
(4) Judge Venckiene and Deimante Kedyte’s fa-
ther petitioned law enforcement and the courts for 
full investigation of Deimante’s claims against the 
accused individuals, but believed the ensuing inves-
tigation to be negligent. 
(5) Lithuania’s parliament (Legal and Judici-
ary Committees) issued a report in 2010 that 
deemed the investigation into Deimante Kedyte’s 
sexual molestation accusations to be negligent and 
found that the negligence had compromised the case 
against the public officials. 
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(6) The prosecutors in the case were fired be-
cause, according to the court, their negligence in the 
investigation and overt coordination with one of the 
suspects resulted in possible lost evidence and cre-
ated ‘‘circumstances for the suspects to avoid crimi-
nal liability’’. 
(7) The Child’s Rights Ombudsman was fired. 
(8) The then Attorney General of Lithaunia, 
Algimantas Valantinas, as well as multiple prosecu-
tors, were forced to resign. 
(9) After Deimante Kedyte’s father went miss-
ing in 2009, Judge Venckiene was awarded guard-
ianship of Deimante. 
(10) Deimante Kedyte’s mother was never in-
dicted for complicity in the sexual molestation de-
spite a Vilnius District Court Ruling in October 
2009 that there was enough evidence to indict her. 
(11) In December 2011, Judge Venckiene was 
ordered to give Deimante Kedyte, then 7 years old, 
back to her mother, but Deimante refused to return 
to her mother, indicating fear of sexual molestation. 
(12) Hundreds of Lithuanians kept vigil outside 
Judge Venckiene’s house to prevent the Lithuanian 
Government from removing Deimante Kedyte. 
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(13) In May 2012, the Lithuanian Government 
sent more than 200 police officers to take Deimante 
Kedyte from Judge Venckiene by force. 
(14) 
Deimante 
Kedyte 
clung 
to 
Judge 
Venckiene, was ripped from her, was carried away 
shrieking, and has completely disappeared from pub-
lic view for the last 61⁄2 years. 
(15) The Lithuanian Government’s action re-
sulted in protests against the Lithuanian Govern-
ment in Lithuania and at numerous Lithuanian em-
bassies around the world, as well as in the United 
States when the Lithuanian President attended the 
NATO summit in Chicago in May 2012. 
(16) Judge Venckiene published a book entitled 
‘‘Way of Courage’’ in 2012 about Deimante 
Kedyte’s ordeal and Lithuania’s failure to properly 
investigate and prosecute the case against the gov-
ernment officials. 
(17) ‘‘Way of Courage’’ became the name of a 
new, anti-corruption, anti-pedophilia political party 
in Lithuania, which elected Judge Venckiene to 
Lithuania’s parliament in 2012. 
(18) Judge Venckiene sought political asylum in 
the United States in 2013 after she received threats 
and experienced what she believed was an attempt 
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on her life following a political rally, and after the 
Lithuanian 
Government 
moved 
to 
lift 
Judge 
Venckiene’s parliamentary immunity. 
(19) The Lithuanian Government has system-
atically prosecuted for ‘‘false statements’’ and other 
crimes the journalists, a medical professional, 
Deimante Kedyte’s grandparents, Judge Venckiene’s 
neighbor, other members of her new political party, 
people who attended rallies on her behalf, and many 
others who came forward with evidence or support of 
Deimante Kedyte’s claims of sexual molestation or 
who opposed the violent removal of Deimante from 
Judge Venckiene. 
(20) Lithuania has leveled more than 35 
charges against Judge Venckiene, including charges 
for filing petitions on behalf of Deimante Kedyte 
with Lithuania’s courts and the Child’s Rights Om-
budsman, making statements critical of the inves-
tigation to journalists, describing in her book the 
sexual molestation case against and naming the pub-
lic officials, involvement in ‘‘unauthorized protests’’, 
‘‘humiliating the court’’, desecrating the national an-
them, conducting her own investigation into the 
case, failing to turn Deimante over to the accused 
mother, 
bruising 
an 
officer, 
and 
kicking 
at 
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Deimante’s accused mother when the accused moth-
er tried to remove Deimante. 
(21) The extradition treaty signed by the 
United States and the Republic of Lithuania on Oc-
tober 23, 2001, does not permit for Judge Venckiene 
to offer counter-evidence in United States court to 
any of Lithuania’s charges against her or to make 
the case for Lithuania’s political motivation. 
(22) A United States Magistrate Judge in April 
2018 approved extradition for charges that Judge 
Venckiene hindered the activities of a bailiff, failed 
to comply with a court’s decision not associated with 
a penalty, caused physical pain, and resisted against 
a civil servant or a person performing the functions 
of public administration—all charges related to 
Deimante Kedyte violently being taken from Judge 
Venckiene’s home and returned to the accused moth-
er. 
(23) In October 2017, Lithuanian prosecutor in 
the case, D. Jakutis, explained to news outlet 
Lietuvos Rytas that political charges were inten-
tionally removed from the extradition request so that 
the request would not be rejected by United States 
authorities. He also noted that if Judge Venckiene 
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is returned to Lithuania, new charges related to the 
old case could be added. 
(24) Former political prisoners, current and 
former government officials in Lithuania, as well as 
other prominent members of society in Lithuania, 
have written to the United States Government, 
warning that the Lithuanian Government’s charges 
against Judge Venckiene are politically motivated. 
(25) The Chairman of the Supreme Court of 
Lithuania Gintaras Kryzevicius has been reported as 
publicly saying that Judge Venckiene ‘‘is an abscess 
in the legal system and an abscess in the political 
system’’ and ‘‘the trouble of the whole state’’. 
(26) Finland, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Den-
mark, Israel, Germany, Austria, Malta, Ukraine, 
and Russia have all refused to extradite individuals 
to Lithuania. 
(27) Judge Venckiene can present evidence con-
cerning the political motivation of Lithuania’s 
charges against her before an immigration judge if 
she is excluded from the extradition treaty and al-
lowed to proceed with her political asylum case, filed 
in 2013 and scheduled to be heard in July 2019. 
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SEC. 3. EXCLUSION FROM EXTRADITION TREATY BETWEEN 
THE UNITED STATES AND THE REPUBLIC OF 
LITHUANIA; EFFECT OF APPLICATION FOR 
ASYLUM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, Judge Neringa Venckiene shall be excluded 
from extradition under the Extradition Treaty Between 
the Government of the United States of America and the 
Government of the Republic of Lithuania, signed at 
Vilnius on October 23, 2001, and entered into force on 
March 31, 2003 (as amended by the Protocol on the Appli-
cation of the Agreement on Extradition between the 
United States of America and the European Union to the 
Extradition Treaty between the Government of the United 
States of America and the Government of the Republic 
of Lithuania, signed at Brussels on June 15, 2005, and 
entered into force on February 1, 2010), and excluded 
from all other laws allowing for her extradition to Lith-
uania. 
(b) POLITICAL ASYLUM.—Judge Neringa Venckiene 
shall be permitted to remain in the United States until 
a final order is issued with respect to her pending applica-
tion for asylum. 
(c) FREE MOVEMENT.—Judge Neringa Venckiene 
shall not be held in Federal or State prison or detention 
for any immigration-related or extradition-related offense 
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and shall be allowed free movement and continued work 
permission until a final order is issued with respect to her 
pending application for asylum. 
Æ 
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