In review summoned the parents of the athlete who complains to the Mixed Jury Court 39-year-old sailing coach for raping her when she was a minor, in order to answer questions that arose from the examination of other witnesses who appear to dispute the rape.
The court asked the mother and father of the 21-year-old, today, athlete to explain why several of their roommates they gave with their testimonies a different version of events which occurred at the time when the rape of their daughter by the 39-year-old is reported.
The president asked the athlete’s mother if she believes that something different could have happened to her or if she feels okay with her conscience.
Witness: I am clear in my conscience about how I handled the matter when A. revealed it to me. But I blame myself for not being able to realize it.
Prosecutor: Do you think that witnesses came here in order to discredit you?
Witness: Absolutely
Prosecutor: Were they waiting for the right time to do that?
Witness: They never stopped dealing with A., they knew everything about her
Prosecutor: Did all these people fall so low to support the rapist? Did they do all this by collusion?
Witness: Indeed
Prosecutor: What benefit do they have?
Prosecutor: It is envy and jealousy. My whole family has been broken up right now, I have been trying to resurrect a child for 10 years. A. found the strength to ask after ten years to testify to continue her life. It was lightning in the air for all of us. He texted me and told me I wanted to report my rape. What would you say as a parent? No; Today, yes, I think I should have acted more drastically. It is absurd, outrageous and vulgar to say that I had held her accountable. And it is even more vulgar while A. found the strength to denounce it, now they insult him.
The athlete’s father, when he stepped on the witness stand for his re-examination, said that the 39-year-old defendant is “cunning and methodical” and that he was misleading them.
Prosecutor: Why do the witnesses say all this? Why did they say that? For the 15 minutes of publicity? Because the society of Oropos emptied youwhy did no one come here to testify?
Witness: Nobody emptied us, all of Oropos is with us. I brought five serious people to testify.
Prosecutor: Why did no one come from the Group?
Witness: Because they are responsible. Only for glory is it.
Prosecutor: You learn this (about rape) and you said you lost people. Then you stayed in the Club. Why stay since no one from the Club had spoken to you?
Witness: Because I supported my child and the new coach.
Earlier in the day, two of the complainant’s associates testified in court, stating that, during the period in questionthere was a close relationship between the alleged victim and the coach and how A.’s mother knew about this proximity that the accused had with her daughter.
As one of the two witnesses stated: “I can not believe that there was rape, A. continued to go to the place and be close to him even when we changed category (in the sport). He continued with the same intimacy with the new coach “. The witness testified that she considers A.’s complaint. “false” and stressed that the complainant she was in love with the coach. “But if he experienced the horrors he describes to us he would have told us somethingHe said.
Prosecutor: Do you find it impossible that all this was happening and you did not understand it?
Witness: Yes, I consider it impossible. It is not possible to hide at these ages such strong emotions as fear, violence….
Prosecutor: What was the role of A.’s mother towards her?
Witness: She was not allowed to play with us, he did not have many freedoms. She only had some freedom when the accused, who had a close relationship with her parents, was near her.
According to what the two athletes claimed in court, the complainant at the time in question did not look at all as a person suffering from violence, on the contrary – as they said – she looked happy at that time. For the accused, the two athletes testified that his behavior in no way seemed abusive.
The trial is set to begin on June 7.
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