A 53-year-old science teacher who was found guilty of continuous abuse of a minor was sentenced to 33 months in prison with a 3-year suspension by the Three-member Criminal Court of Rhodes.

Moreover, the District Prosecutor suggested his guilt.

According to the indictment, during the period from the academic year 2017 until the end of the academic year 2020, the professor, while giving private mathematics lessons to a minor in her home, after asking her parents to stay away from the area of lessons, he repeatedly placed his hand over her breast, hugged her, placed his hand between her legs with the apparent intention of touching her genitalia, and pulled her to sit on top of him.

As “dimokratiki” wrote, a 15-year-old girl today, a student of the first Lyceum, confided in May 2022 to one of her teachers, in the third grade of the High School, in which she attended, and then to her mother, that the teacher was acting against her during the during special lessons that he gave her in the house where she lives with her parents, while she was studying in the fifth grade of elementary school!

In fact, as she claims, the teacher’s lewd acts against her continued until the first year of high school.

Her teacher had noticed a change in her behavior and approached her to be surprised to learn from the child’s lips the secret that she hid deep inside even from her parents.

In fact, the child decided not to continue his studies in the school complex where the teacher works and chose another school.

The teacher informed Secondary Education with her report and the case was referred for investigation to the Criminal Prosecution of Rhodes and from there to the Security Directorate of Rhodes while at the same time an administrative investigation was ordered.

In the context of the preliminary investigation that was carried out, three female teachers testified to what the child confided in them.

The child also described in the presence of a child psychologist what the teacher did to him, even saying that he did it as an excuse whenever he did not understand, while he also described how he felt fear.

Yesterday, two teachers from the same school complex testified at the trial in support of the accusation, describing in a clear way how the child’s behavior, psyche and image changed and how they themselves were led to the decision to approach her and elicit what she had suffered from the professor, to inform her mother and take the case to justice.

In fact, they testified that the minor had reached the point of self-harming her hands, that she was being treated by a psychiatrist, and when she finally got over it, she started hanging out and leaving the classroom during breaks.

The statements given by her parents and her sister were similar.

A teacher at the same school, a parent of one of his students and his wife testified in favor of the accused.

The same apologist categorically denied what was attributed to him and claimed that in the two years 2017-2018, at the request of a colleague, known to the family, he agreed to help the sister of the student, who is alleged to be his victim, to give Panhellenic exams.

He claimed that the family’s reasons for stopping the private lessons were financial and he emphasized that he is the father of two adult daughters and could never have done what is attributed to him, even saying that the contacts with the family were until 2021, but also with the child even referring to a series of messages he had received from the child on social media at an unsuspected time before the complaint.

He even emphasized that he does not know what her motives and reasons are for the complaint.

The teacher’s defense attorneys were represented by Mr. Stelios Alexandris and Polyxeni Hatzigianni and as an advocate for the prosecution Mr. Spyros Salamastrakis.