Horrible case sexual exploitation of a minor girl with the assistance of her father, which had caused a pan-Hellenic uproar, was determined by the Dodecanese Appellate Prosecutor’s Office to be tried in the second degree at the Dodecanese Mixed Court of Appeal on March 4, 2024.

The trial court found the defendants – specifically him 41 year old father from Kalymnos and one 67 years old his fellow citizen – guilty of repeated rape, repeated lewdness with a minor under the age of 15 years, repeated lewdness of a minor and simple aiding and abetting lewdness with a minor under the age of 15 for remuneration per follow-up and habitually.

No mitigating factors were recognized for the second and he was sentenced to 28 years in prison (25 suspended) and a fine of 100,000 euros.

The father was given the mitigating factor of subsequent good behavior and was sentenced to 13 years in prison.

The tortures of the girl

The case had caused shock and disgust, since the 41-year-old father allegedly forced his 14-year-old daughter into prostitution to the 67-year-old for a fee (from 5 to 20 euros at a time) since October 2013 until August 2017!

The defendants were arrested by police officers from the Kalymnos police station after complaint of the minor daughter of the 41-year-old, in 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 Kalymnos Police Department.

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 dragged her by force 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 claims that he had then recounted what had happened to him father her and he the 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 molest her almost 2 to 3 times every week.

She specifically claimed that he raped her and left her each time 5 to 10 euros 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.