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The Legal Service of the Republic considers as very important the decision of the Nicosia Permanent Criminal Court to find guilty a person who, in the capacity of a client, received sexual services from a victim of trafficking (sexual exploitation). This is the first time that a 'client' has been convicted by a Cypriot Court. The convicted person was today given concurrent sentences of 2.5 years' and 3 years' imprisonment, as he was also found guilty and convicted of the offence of rape.
For the same case, the Court of Cassation also found a second person guilty of all the charges he faced, namely trafficking of a minor and an adult for sexual exploitation, economic violence, withholding personal documents, pimping, threatening and common assault. This person was given a prison sentence of 6 years and 5 years for the offences of trafficking of a minor and adult respectively, as well as other shorter prison sentences for the other offences. It is also the first time that a Cypriot Court has convicted a person for trafficking of a minor for the purpose of sexual exploitation after a hearing.
A third defendant in the case was sentenced to 4 months' imprisonment for the offence of threatening.
The events of the case began to unfold when the complainant was still a minor and was transferred to another province for the purpose of being forced into prostitution. For that purpose, one of the defendants, in the ensuing period, deprived her of the means of subsistence, with the result that the complainant succumbed to the constant encouragement she received for her prostitution. With regard to the client, it is noted that while the trafficking victim initially provided consensual market sex services, in the process these services became non-consensual, since it was clear from the complainant that she was not consenting to unprotected vaginal intercourse.
On behalf of the Attorney General of the Republic, the case was handled by Ms. Chrystia Kythraiotou, Senior Advocate of the Republic.
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