A 68 -year -old coach of TAE Kwon Do is taken to prison after being sentenced by the Thessaloniki Mixed Circuit Court of Appeal in five years in prison for sexual acts he performed against his minor athlete.
The case arrived in justice in 2019, 13 years after the acts in question, when I was passing by, having entered the Police School and promoted to ELAS Officer, thanks to her great awards in sports, she decided to be awarded him. complains.
“All these years I felt a burden inside me, I couldn’t overcome it,” she told the court, describing in detail what she was experiencing at the age of 12.
As the Passeus testified, she had then addressed her parents and they in turn denounced the coach in the federation. The defendant was asked to explain to the Federation and set up a closed committee that simply ceased to him from his duties as a referee, according to the prosecutor of the Thessaloniki Mixed Circuit Court of Appeal.
“She destroyed her soul, she tired her,” her mother testified for the convicted coach, stressing that her daughter was crying before the races and did not want to go to training. For his part, the complainant’s father said that he had asked the coach after his daughter’s initial complaint, but the defendant denied everything, saying that everything is lies. As the father noted, “I did not see him again (we changed coach), nor did he move a move to persuade me and tell me to come back to the girl. I feel remorse and guilt. ”
In his apology, the 68 -year -old denied the complaint, insisting that he was false, referring to a fracture set up against him in order for the talented athlete to change the coach.
His allegations did not convince him and was found guilty of sexual acts with a minor, without recognizing any mitigating. He had been sentenced to 6 years in prison by the Giannitsa Joint Circuit Court, but had been released on restrictive terms in view of the Court of Appeal, after whose verdict he took the prison for prison in order to serve his sentence.
Source: RES – EIA
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