A Five-member Criminal Appeals Court on Wednesday sentenced a Greek judge to serve six years in jail for sexually abusing his five-year-old son. The court reduced the suspended 13-year sentence originally imposed by a lower-level court by seven years. Following the verdict, the judge was sent to prison.
The sentence followed a lengthy hearing with damning testimony against the now divorced judge read out in court describing how he had sexually abused his son.
Among the issues noted in the case was the fact that the judge, who did not preside over criminal cases, had not been suspended from duty following his first conviction and 13-year sentence but had continued to try cases and issue rulings since no authority had initiated procedures to suspend him until the final ruling in the serious charges against him.
The case first came to trial last April when a Three-Member Criminal Appeals Court had issued its ruling and a date for an appeals trial was set within a few months.
(Source:AMNA)
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