In 2008–2009, Venckienė's brother Drąsius Kedys accused three men of sexually molesting his four-year old daughter.
These court ruling caused a popular uproar in Lithuania and members of the public started a vigil guarding the house where the girl lived so that the police could not take her away.
In April 2013, the Seimas voted to remove Venckienė's legal immunity and she fled to the United States seeking political asylum.
On 29 November 2008, Kedys submitted a formal complaint to the police, claiming that Andrius Ūsas, an advisor to the speaker of the Parliament, paid Stankūnaitė to sexually molest his daughter.
In February 2009, Kedys further pressed accusations against Violeta Naruševičienė, a sister of Stankūnaitė, claiming the former had allowed men to molest his 4-year-old daughter.
In July 2009, Kedys also accused Jonas Furmanavičius, a district judge, and an unidentified individual known only as Aidas, of partaking in the molestation.
All of those people (except for the unidentified Aidas) professed their innocence, and in turn accused Kedys of slander, criminal libel, and death threats.
However, his relatives were convinced that Kedys had been murdered, pointing to some wounds on his body, and the fact that there was no vomit found on the scene.
[3] Ūsas, the main suspect in the pedophilia case, was officially charged with sexual molestation of a minor.
After the continued protests and demonstrations, the court reversed its decision to transfer the custody of the girl to the mother.
People were outraged at the footage of the mother and her bodyguard attempting to pull the screaming girl away from the grandmother.
The police shut down the roads, closed the local school, and enforced a lockdown of a 2-mile (3-km) perimeter around Venckienė's house.
[12] In March 2011, Venskienė was reprimanded by the Judicial Discipline and Ethics Commission because "Venckienė in her actions and statements in the public media violated Judges etiquette code of conduct regarding respecting a person, loyalty to the country, unbiasedness, selflessness, respect and example principles".
The goals include changes in the justice system, the establishment of trial by jury, and stricter punishments for corruption, rape and pedophilia.
At the time she faced 39 criminal charges, including illegal surveillance, disrespecting the national anthem, and public statements to infringe on sovereignty of Lithuania.
Additional charges were brought against Venckienė, including an attempt to overthrow the government, spying, and a threat to the state.
[25] In Lithuania, she was released on a 10,000 euro bail and faces trial for relatively minor offences of hitting a person, refusing to obey a court order, and resisting a police officer.
Congressman Chris Smith from New Jersey introduced a private bill in the House of Representatives "for the relief of Judge Neringa Venckienė, 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".
[31] The commission is independent U.S. government agency which was created 1975 to monitor Human Rights Violations and to encourage compliance with the Helsinki Final Act.
On 2 February 2019, Rep. Smith re-introduced the "Give Judge Venckienė Her Day In Court Act" in the 116th Congress of the United States.
[32] In May 2020, after a classified video of the 2012 police operation surfaced – showing violence being used by police officers and Stankunaitė against the girl and Venckienė, Rep. Smith released a statement condemning Lithuania's actions and "[calling] on the Lithuanian government to cease the prosecution of Judge Venckienė".