A 48-year-old man who sat on the bench of the Mixed Jury Court of Thessaloniki was sentenced to a total sentence of 25 years (with a maximum sentence of 20), accused of sexually abusing his minor girlfriends when they went to play at his house.
Doing accepted the prosecutor’s proposal, the Court unanimously found him guilty – without recognition of mitigation – for rape, abuse of minors, as well as for sexual acts with a minor under 12 years of age. “The children made the same description using the same phraseology. Why should they lie? ” said the President of the Court commenting on the testimonies of a total of four minor victims during their examination by child psychologists. “There is no doubt that the operations were carried out”he said, announcing the verdict of the Court.
Earlier in his apology, the accused – father of four children – denied all the acts attributed to him by the indictment. “I stand with you in the most critical moment of my life, defending my innocence and the future of my family,” he said, adding that he had never approached underage girls in any way. “I am not such a person,” he apologized. having his family by his side.
According to the indictment, the above operations were performed in the period from 2015 to 2019, in a suburb of Thessaloniki, while the victims, as the case may be, were 6 to 12 years old. The criminal investigation of the case started in September 2020, after a lawsuit filed by the mother of a minor. A year later, the 48-year-old apologized to an investigator and was remanded in custody in Grevena prison, where he will return to serve his sentence.
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