The 69-year-old musician and former drummer of Pyx Lax, C. Yiannopoulos, who pleaded guilty to a series of felony charges involving four new allegations against him for sexual abuse of underage girls.
These charges are: Genital battery with minors under the age of 12 and with minors under the age of 12 once in a serial and repeated manner and abuse of minors under the age of 14 once in a serial and repeated manner.
These new charges that were brought against the musician and for which he is currently in custody, concern four girls, whom, according to the accusation, the well-known drummer sexually abused between 2007 and 2015, while they were minors.
The 69-year-old allegedly committed the acts for which he is being prosecuted in two campsites in the prefecture of Ilia, where he was staying, as the complainants were staying with their families. In fact, according to information, he had been expelled from both campsites as their owners had been informed of the complaints against him. In fact, a statement has already been given to the investigating judge on this aspect of the case.
What the adult women - except for one who is still a minor and testified as required by law to the investigating judge in the presence of a special psychologist - have reported about George Gannopoulos is truly shocking and appalling. "One day about halfway through the holidays me, the complainant and some other little girls were playing in the sea, the complainant approached me and making a joke 'for peeing in the sea', he found an excuse and grabbed my vagina" one of the women who accused the drummer of sexually abusing her while she was a minor is reported to have testified. "After the incident I found an excuse to get out of the sea and since then I started avoiding him. The following year, on the first fortnight, the accused was there again, in the same spot. I watched him continue to approach the holidaymakers' children and supposedly "play" with them. What he did disturbed me. That is why I am coming forward and testifying to what happened so that no other girl is victimized by him...," she has added.
Another woman has testified how the musician suggested they play a computer game on the computer - and while all the girls in the room were looking at the computer screen he, the girl says, "took the opportunity to put his hand through my underwear and started rubbing his fingers on my vagina, between my legs." "I tried to get up at that moment" - says the complainant - "but he grabbed me by the arms and pulled me onto his mole and continued to caress and rub me at that point."
The Trial
Meanwhile, on June 17, the 69-year-old will stand trial in the second degree for another felony offense involving the sexual assault of a 6-year-old girl. In the first instance, the musician was sentenced to 12 years in prison for this case without the court even granting him any mitigating circumstances. However, the first instance court had then granted him a stay of execution of the sentence pending appeal, and also imposed the conditions of twice-monthly duty at his local police station and banned him from leaving the country.
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