A mother has been accused by her 18-year-old daughter of beating her with a broomstick and locking her in her room because she realized the young girl was uploading nude photos online and dating unknown men. The Automatic Single-Member Misdemeanor Court Thessaloniki dismissed the mother due to doubts and accepted that the daughter made the complaint vindictively when her parents reprimanded her.

As the complainant’s father testified, the 18-year-old (she just came of age in the previous 24 hours and after the complaint) was using his mobile phone to take pictures, as she had been forbidden to use hers. “He didn’t delete them and I found them on my mobile phone. He would go to the bathroom and take nude photos to upload them to the internet,” he testified, adding that he recently became aware of his daughter’s dates. “I found out she was going on two different dates with different grown men. Her mother found her in a car. He was afraid of being in danger. He argued with her that’s why he reported her the same day. He’s been doing this since June when school stopped for the summer,” he said.

Apologizing, the mother confirmed what her husband testified and denied what the 18-year-old complained to the police. “She gets very angry with me when I don’t let her do what she wants,” she noted, stressing that she intends to seek psychological support for her daughter.