On April 4, a resident of Leros will sit in the dock of the Mixed Jury Court of Rhodes accused of abuse of minors in lewdness serially and repeatedly and of physical harm to minors serially and repeatedly, namely to his two nieces.
The prosecution against him was initiated after the father of the two children filed a complaint on 28 November 2019.
The accused categorically denies what is attributed to him, claiming that his relations with his two nieces and nephews were very good, healthy and harmonious. They were, he said, connected and had always been connected by "genuine bonds of love because of their close family relationship."
He claims that his sister married at the age of 16 and from her marriage he had his two nieces, 15 and 13 years old at the time.
His sister lived with her husband in an old two-storey house owned by her mother-in-law and, he claims, the living conditions in that house were not the best to ensure a healthy, balanced and decent standard of living for the minors.
She claimed that the minors' father and his brother had drug-related problems and pointed out that the parents were not performing their parental duties to the best of their ability.
He claimed that his sister's family was facing problems of social adjustment poverty, while he was the one who provided for their needs for basic material goods, spending money from his income, assisting them financially.
The children's desire, he said, to follow him and spend hours with him, especially on weekends, developed effortlessly.
When his underage nieces, he said, manifested undesirable socially unacceptable behaviors, when they were foul-mouthed, when they used inappropriate language and gestures, mostly at their own parents' expense, when they made uncontrolled use of the Internet, when they were absent from home for long hours for no reason, he was forced to reprimand them - doing the work of their parents - and sometimes even punish them, in order to avoid similar incidents in the future.
Because of this attitude they reacted, and moved away when his relations with his sister and brother-in-law were broken because of a family dispute.
He claimed that he never caused bodily injury or substantial harm to the health of his minor nieces and nephews and never conceived of defiling her or performing acts subjectively directed at the arousal or gratification of his sexual drive and desire.
He claimed that the only direct physical contact he had with his minor nieces was when he bathed them when they were 10-12 years old, and that his conduct was never intended to have any sexual arousal or to violate their filial purity.[BR]He believes that both his underage nieces and their parents were convinced by his explanations and reconsidered the erroneous impression that his conduct had inadvertently given them.
Source: dimokratiki.gr
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