Before the Larnaca District Court on Tuesday, the mother and sister of the complainant woman who complained against Metropolitan Chrysostomos, the former Bishop of Kition, testified, 84 years old, for indecent assault.
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At the time in question when the offence was allegedly committed, i.e. in 1981 within the Metropolis, the complainant was a minor, while the former Kitioi Metropolitan pleaded not guilty to the charge of indecent assault.
The mother of the complainant stated in her statement before the Court that after the death of her husband she sent her daughter, on the recommendations of a neighbour, to go and get financial assistance from the then Metropolitan of Kition, while she also referred to her last visit to the Metropolis when she said that on her return home she was crying and that she had to call a doctor to give her sedative pills.
She also mentioned that her daughter never got over what happened and that she was taking pills to get over it.
Michael Piki, defence counsel for the former Kition Metropolitan, cross-examining the witness, submitted that nothing she said in her testimony had happened with the complainant's mother stating that she went to court to tell the truth.
Asked by Mr. Piki to indicate whether she asked her daughter what she did every time she went to Metropolis, the mother said that he did not ask her and that the last time she returned home crying.
For her part, the sister of the complainant said in her main examination before the Court that after her last visit to Metropolitan ex-Kitium, her sister kept crying and was in a bad psychological state.
She also said that she and her fiancé decided to set a trap for the Metropolitan to record him. Because she claimed her voice sounded like her sister's, she called the former Kition Metropolitan's personal phone number, and, according to her, he told her that if she stayed with him "they would have a good time."
She also added that when they presented the two tapes they managed to record with her fiancé to a lawyer, he advised them "not to mess with the Church", and noted that she does not know where the tapes are today, since she and her then-husband divorced.
In his cross-examination, Michael Piki submitted to the witness that the specific tapes never existed with the complainant's sister telling him that she was telling the truth.
Mr. Piki told the witness that if what the complainant alleged really happened, the first thing they would do would be to go to the police, since they even had in their possession tapes with the voice, as she claimed, of the former Bishop of Kition.
The witness replied that because they were not satisfied with the lawyer's answer, her fiancé went to a newspaper and a journalist told them that "you can't mess with the Church."
Mr. Pikis submitted to the witness that this is all an afterthought, that there were never any tapes, they never went to a lawyer, that this lawyer would never tell them what he claimed, and that they are saying all this to justify the fact that they did not go to report the incident to the police.
At the conclusion of the cross-examination of the two women, the Court set Thursday, June 23 for a continuation of the hearing with testimony from other witnesses.
Source: CNA
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