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13 years imprisonment without any mitigating circumstances was the verdict of the Athens Mixed Jury Court for the 39-year-old sailing coach.
The the coach was earlier found guilty only of the offence of indecent assault, while he was acquitted by a narrow majority for the offence of rape against his underage athlete.
The same sentence of 13 years had been recommended to the judges by the prosecutor of the court, while he recommended that the convicted man should not be granted a suspensive effect on appeal due to the nature and special characteristics of the offence for which he was convicted, a proposal which was adopted by the court.
The court also unanimously rejected the recognition of mitigating circumstances for the convicted sailing coach.
The court also unanimously rejected the recognition of mitigating circumstances for the convicted sailing coach.
Earlier, the recognition of the mitigating circumstance of good behaviour after the act to the sailing coach was proposed by the prosecutor of the MOC's seat.
"As far as good behaviour after the act is concerned, facts over a long period of time are required from which a positive change of character can be deduced. The accused since the autumn of 2013 and until today has not been proven to have committed a criminal act and seems to have understood that what he committed against the complainant was criminally assessable and not tolerable.
I propose to grant him a mitigating factor as for nine consecutive years he has not committed a criminal act", the prosecutor stressed, proposing the recognition of this mitigating factor.
On the contrary, the prosecutor proposed not to grant the convicted person the mitigating circumstances of sincere repentance and previous lawful life.
"The accused maintained for some months contact with an 11-year-old child and made at least one gesture of a sexual nature, a kiss. A fact that reveals a deviation from the normality of social relations and constitutes criminal behaviour", the prosecutor stressed on the mitigating circumstance of prior lawful life.
As for sincere repentance, the prosecutor stressed that a confession to the act of child abuse is not sufficient to establish this mitigating circumstance.
Source: in.gr
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