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Kalymnos: The case of a father who forced his underage daughter into prostitution is revived

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On December 5, the trial in second degree at the Mixed Jury Court of Appeal of Dodecanese

An incredible one case of sexual exploitation of a minor with the assistance of her fatherwhich had caused a pan-Hellenic uproar, will be tried in the second instance at the Mixed Jury Court of Appeal of the Dodecanese on December 5, 2022.

The trial courtby a majority decision, judged the accused and specifically a 67-year-old resident of Kalymnos and a 41-year-old fellow citizen, guilty of serial rapeincest with a minor under 15 years of age per se, trafficking of a minor in per se and for simple complicity in incest with a minor under 15 years of age for remuneration per se and by habit.

No mitigating factors were identified in the firstwhile in the second the mitigating factor of subsequent good behavior was recognized.

The first was sentenced to 28 years in prison (suspended at 25) and a fine of 100,000 euros and in the second sentence of 13 years imprisonment.

The defendants were arrested by officers from the Kalymnos police station following a complaint by the 41-year-old’s minor daughter in August 2017.

The case had caused shock and disgust, since the father allegedly forced his 14-year-old daughter into prostitution in the first for a fee of 5-20 euros every time from October 2013 to August 2017!

The minor allegedly confessed what she was experiencing to her aunts and on August 16, 2017 she reported her father and the 67-year-old to the police of AT Kalymnos.

It is noted that the girl’s mother is estranged from her father and they do not have frequent contact.

She lived with her father and brother in a single-story house across a field near a coffee shop. According to what the child claimed, the 67-year-old forcibly dragged her to a field and raped her there.

Her father and her brother were not at home and the old man allegedly left her the sum of 5 euros as a fee.

He argues that then she had recounted what had happened to her father and he urged her to forget what had happened and that he would arrange the 67-year-old himself.

She claimed that the 67-year-old continued to abuse her almost 2 to 3 times every week.

He specifically argued that he raped her and left her 5 to 10 euros each time and that she herself was leaving the money to her father.

She also pointed out that she had talked about her passions to a psychologist at her school but was too embarrassed.

He further claimed that her father encouraged her to be with the 67-year-old and sometimes even argued with her.

The defendants categorically denied what the minor claims and emphasized that these are fictions.

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