Acquitted of the rapes of her children due to “inability to recognize the wrongdoing” – the ex-wife of the Parliament police officer

In December 2024, a horrifying lawsuit began to unfold involving the 4 children of a mates who were some constabulary officers. The begetter had been raping the children since 2016, portion the parent had besides participated successful these abusive acts. Yesterday, the Mixed Jury Court of Athens unanimously recovered the 46-year-old officer—who had served for years successful the Hellenic Parliament guard—guilty and sentenced him to 4 beingness presumption positive an further 80 years successful prison. In contrast, the parent was acquitted by majority, contempt the prosecutor’s proposal for her conviction.

The reasoning down the acquittal raised questions, arsenic the tribunal stated that the pistillate was recovered not blameworthy owed to “inability to admit the wrongdoing” and due to the fact that of a “significant dilemma.” How tin a pistillate whose assemblage is to enforce the instrumentality beryllium deemed incapable of knowing that an enactment is unlawful? However, specified a proviso does beryllium successful the transgression code. As her defence lawyer, Ioannis Barkagiannis, explained successful a written statement: “Despite the opposing prosecutorial proposal, the Mixed Jury Court of Athens declared my lawsuit not blameworthy of the charges of rape of minors, maltreatment of minors by a idiosyncratic successful a presumption of trust, and incestuous acts, arsenic it judged that these acts cannot beryllium attributed to her owed to an inability to debar the wrongdoing, portion she was nether a authorities of coercion, fear, and terror.”

Essentially, the main defence statement was accepted that the 46-year-old father, successful summation to the children, had besides been convulsive toward his ex-wife. The revelations astir the hellhole the 4 children were surviving successful began to look aft the pistillate filed a ailment for home unit and threats against her. However, it was the children themselves who, speaking to specializer kid psychologists, described successful item the fearfulness that had been their regular beingness for years—so overmuch truthful that 1 of the 4 had attempted to instrumentality their ain beingness by jumping from a balcony.

When everything was revealed, the pistillate was large with her 5th child. Both had been placed successful pre-trial detention, and aft his condemnation yesterday, the 46-year-old erstwhile constabulary serviceman was sent backmost to prison. He asked the tribunal to admit the mitigating origin of a antecedently lawful life, but this was rejected. The proceedings lasted for months but was held down closed doors successful bid to forestall further nationalist disclosure of what the 4 children had suffered and to let them to beryllium protected and, arsenic overmuch arsenic possible, for their wounds to heal implicit time. The constabulary serviceman heard the court’s verdict without immoderate disposable reaction.