“Mom what you heard is this” the 14-year-old from Mylopotamos, Rethymno, reportedly told her mother after revealing the nightmare she was living as revealed by the EL.AS investigation, as strangers pushed her into prostitution for a fee to men.

“‘Mom, whatever you heard, that’s it,'” he told me. He doesn’t want to talk to me, he doesn’t want to tell me much. My boyfriend is embarrassed. “Everything you learned from the Police, Mom.” “We will fight it, don’t worry, I’m by your side. I am your mother, I am also your father,'” said the girl’s mother, speaking to the Star.

It all started when in security Rethymnon received an anonymous complaint that a 14-year-old girl was being forced into prostitution.

The police immediately got to work and after an investigation they were surprised to find that the anonymous complaint was not only true, but also that the minor was living a nightmare at the hands of at least 13 men.

From the examination of the minor in the presence of a child psychiatrist, it was established that she had been raped and performed sexual acts by at least 12 men. A forensic examination of the 14-year-old was immediately ordered, while the relevant case file was submitted to the District Attorney of Rethymno.

In fact, the girl in his testimony identified one of the men as her rapist – a 38-year-old Pakistani national – while the others are accused of performing sexual acts.

The rapist is also accused of being the person who “moved the strings”, i.e. the promoter, but the investigations are still ongoing.

Her father’s suicide

Last Thursday and while the authorities’ investigations into the sexual exploitation of the 14-year-old was in progress, another incident from her family circle preoccupied the authorities. The disappearance of her father, for which a missing alert had even been issued. The 50-year-old man was found dead in his farm car by his relatives after three days of investigations, with the most likely scenario being suicide, but nothing has been ruled out yet.

The announcement from “The Smile of the Child”

“Child’s smile”, following the incident with the continuous sexual abuse of a 15-year-old girl in Rethymno, Crete, informs about the history of the case:

In the summer of 2023, we received an anonymous report on the “National Children’s SOS 1056 Hotline” from sensitized citizens about ongoing sexual exploitation and abuse of a minor from the wider mountainous area in the hinterland of Rethymno, where adult men, both foreigners, are allegedly involved , as well as nationals. We proceeded, as in any similar incident, to immediately inform the competent authorities, and we addressed the Rethymnon Security Sub-Directorate.

The caller from the “National Children’s Hotline SOS 1056” was connected by phone with officials from the Rethymnon Security Sub-Directorate, as the caller wished to remain anonymous. After this information and connection, in the context of trust and good cooperation with the Organization, the Rethymnon Security Sub-Directorate immediately initiated all the necessary procedures to locate the 15-year-old and following a prosecutor’s order, her living conditions were discreetly investigated.

The mobilization of the Security Sub-Directorate of Rethymnon for the case of the minor in question was immediate, as it is a common phenomenon in cases of anonymous reports, that the prescribed procedures are not initiated by all the competent Authorities, that the reports are archived and their validity is not investigated, with result in dangerous people being able to act at the expense of children, undisturbed.