Prosecutor seeks convictions in child abuse case involving ex-parliamentary officer

A nationalist authoritative astatine an Athens tribunal has called for the condemnation of a erstwhile parliamentary constabulary serviceman arrested astir one-and-a-half years agone successful transportation with a bid of superior offenses against his children, according to reports.

The suspect was arrested successful November 2024 aft allegations of home violence and intersexual maltreatment involving his 4 children were filed by his estranged wife, who is besides a constabulary officer.

The trial, taking spot astatine the Mixed Jury Court of Athens, a tribunal of archetypal instance, is being held down closed doors to support the privateness of the underage victims. 

The defendant, who remains successful temporary detention, faces aggregate charges, including repeated rape, serial kid abuse, incest, arsenic well arsenic the accumulation and possession of kid pornography. He is besides charged with deliberate home bodily harm against a insignificant and repeated firearms-related offenses.

According to reports, the authoritative has projected his condemnation connected astir charges, excluding those related to deliberate bodily harm against a insignificant and possession of firearms.

The authoritative has besides called for the condemnation of the children’s mother, who faces charges of kid rape, kid maltreatment by a idiosyncratic adjacent to the child, and repeated incestuous acts. She has stated from the outset of the trial that she acted under coercion by her estranged husband.