The parents of the 21-year-old sailing athlete who she complained to her coach about sexually abusing her while she was a minortestified in the trial of the 39-year-old, which continued today before the MOD.
Following the testimony given by the complainant herself, without being made public in court, the mother and father of the sailor, who, motivated by the Olympian Sofia Bekatorou, complained to the Prosecutor’s Office a year ago that her 39-year-old coach, for three years, from the age of 11 to 14, he sexually abused her.
According to the athlete’s parents, They learned what was happening to their child through a recorded message left by the athlete herself on her father’s cell phone.
“I learned about his action from my child’s recorded message on her father’s cell phone. He was a broken child. He told us that “the accused is not what you believe. He has been raping me for two years, lately he has been threatening my life and hitting me incessantly” he told us “ The mother of the 21-year-old testified in court and added that what they heard about their coach was devastating. “We heard about a man, ours, who we knew, who showed me admiration, for many, my morals, my relationship with my husband…” said the witness, who stressed that until they found out what the athlete told them, they had a good relationship with the accused who went to work in the specific Sailing Club while her husband was in charge.
The witness stated that her daughter, at that time, had a drop in her performance at school and that she had seen some bruises on her body, about which the girl told her then, that she was from the boat, something she believed without give more importance.
The Edra prosecutor pointed out to the witness that even today in her testimony she calls the accused by his first name, while he mentioned the testimonies of other persons from the specific area.
Prosecutor: There are testimonies that your daughter was “his tail”, that she sought to be near him and that something more was running between your daughter and the coach… What do you say? Why come to testify all this during the interrogation?
Witness: It strikes me that they came and said that. I believe that they cover others who want to avoid disciplinary responsibilities of the people and the Group and out of jealousy alone. I can not think of anything else. They wanted to cover disciplinary sanctions that members of the group would have.
Prosecutor: What disciplinary sanctions would the board members have for the actions taken by the accused?
Prosecutor: Did your daughter have nothing to do with the accused other than the sports part? A witness says that you said “would it be bad to marry her coach?”.
Witness: Possible; Are we in Afghanistan? 12 to 28; If I wanted to marry her, I would not have married her by now, ten times?
Prosecutor: Did the accused ever come to pick up your daughter by car?
Witness: Never.
Prosecutor: Madam witness I have five testimonies that say…
Witness: He picked up all the children. Amalia never went anywhere alone with T.. She was never alone, she was always her sister together.
According to the sailor’s mother, “the decision to come here was not ours but Amalia’s. The reason was not Bekatorou, but on the occasion of Bekatorou that there was a mobilization of Justice and we said that now we will not be alone because until now we were alone “.
The athlete’s father, who worked closely with the accused due to his capacity as curator of the sailing club, described in his testimony that when he learned what had happened to his daughter and the coach, “the earth left under my feet! And this from a man for whom I only did good, I built his dream “.
The witness said, when asked about the testimonies that otherwise describe the whole case, that these witnesses “envy Amalia because she got global and managed to surpass them all”.
The trial is set to begin on Thursday, May 12.
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