The Permanent Paphos Court of Appeal, today 21.06.2022, in an in camera proceeding imposed concurrent prison sentences of up to 11 years to a man who was found guilty on May 30, 2022 on charges of sexual abuse of a child and domestic violence, with the victim being the minor daughter of his cohabitant.
According to a statement from the Cairo Court, The minor was 9 years old at approximately the time the offences were committed between 2017 and May 2019.
As stated, when imposing the sentence, the need for deterrence was emphasized due to the rise in the phenomenon of sexual abuse of minors, whose abuse involves the deconstruction of sacred minority in early years, with the abuse involving all dimensions of their lives.
Source: CNA
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