The trial of the case started yesterday at the Mixed Jury Court of Rethymnon and is expected to continue today – among other things – with the testimony of the victim himself
Yesterday, Tuesday, December 6, the trial began for the shocking case of the 20-year-old – today – Giannis, who was allegedly the victim of sexual abuse in previous years, among others, by his priest uncle, as well as three other people. The trial of the case started yesterday at the Mixed Jury Court of Rethymno and is expected to continue today, Wednesday, December 7 – among other things – with the testimony of the victim himself.
Young John is said to he was rushing from the age of 14 to 19: According to the indictment, the 20-year-old, who has a slight mental retardation – which, however, does not prevent him from fully realizing the “evil acts”, as he calls them – was the victim of sexual abuse by a friend of the father of him, from his father’s priest brother, from another priest and from the latter’s brother who is dealing with disability problems. The martyrdom of the young man allegedly took place with the consent of the father himself, who is also an accused in the case.
The constant torture of John with the consent of his father – from his childhood until he became an adult – at the hands of the four men, who by exercising physical and psychological violence on him threatened him, humiliated him and forced him to become a pawn to their sick appetites, it was reflected in the phrases that Yannis himself mentioned in his statements and read yesterday by the prosecutor… “We will crucify you like Christ and we will burn you like Judas”, they allegedly said to him, in order to terrify him, when he, crying, he begged not to harm him and not to rape him once more.
The accused is a 68-year-old – today – retired, a friend of Giannis’ father, who is accused of serially raping him 20 times and gang-raping him twice. In addition to the 68-year-old, the 72-year-old priest and teacher, who is John’s uncle, another 44-year-old priest, as well as the 42-year-old brother of the priest who is disabled, are also accused of the two gang rapes of John. Besides, the 67-year-old father of Giannis is accused of complicity in the ongoing rape of his son. It should be noted that all the “5” denied yesterday what is attributed to them, declaring that they are innocent.
The 20-year-old, who now lives in a safe environment, from a very young age and having been deprived of the caress and hugs of his mother, who abandoned him, accepted his father’s wild and inhuman behavior based on the indictment. As the prosecutor reported, he beat him with his hands every day, forced him to live in a house without heating, without water, without a mattress, without bedding, with little and ragged clothes next to the garbage, while the times he did not lock him in the house , kicked him out and spent the night in the countryside.
For the trial of the case, the total number of witnesses exceeds 40, while the court adjourned yesterday at noon and will continue today at 9 am with the testimony of 20-year-old Yiannis, despite the fact that his lawyer asked to be exempted from this arduous trial for him. mental process world.
“Justice to be rendered”
“Justice be served! All those who have done these bad deeds to him, as he calls them in his own mind – I would say the horrible and abominable – be condemned as harshly as possible”, she requested yesterday, through statements she made to “CRETE TV” and the “Nea Kriti”, the advocate in support of the charge (former civil action), Mr. Nikos Doudoulakis.
“The charge against him is unthinkable. Not only because we are talking about his nephew, we are talking about his own blood, but for any child who would face a problem, she would bend down, as she has bent down all these years, next to him,” the advocate told “CRETE TV” yesterday defense of the 72-year-old priest Mr. Vaso Pantazis.
It is pointed out that since early yesterday morning the Courthouse of Rethymno was surrounded by strong police forces, as collectives from Chania and Rethymno had put up banners shouting slogans against the priests allegedly involved in the case. Besides, there were disapprovals at the expense of the rasophores who were in the Courts to support the accused clerics, which culminated when they left the Courthouse.
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