The 70-year-old drummer, who has worked with a popular band in the past, has been asked to be acquitted in four cases of sexual harassment of underage girls, requested by the prosecutor of the Joint Jury Court, in which the musician is detained. had tried.

In particular, the prosecutor asked the judges to release the 70-year-old man in two cases due to doubts and in two others due to the statute of limitations. The musician is on trial for sexual acts with a minor after four women complained that, as a minor, he raped them at a holiday complex in Ilia prefecture between 2007 and 2015, taking advantage of the friendship he had with their parents.

According to the prosecutor’s office, in two of the four cases, evidence was found that could substantiate the charge, but the actions have a statute of limitations. As for the other two, the prosecutor said that “although it is quite possible that things happened”, as complained, they cannot be accepted within a strict legal framework.

He also stated that while the alleged acts may have taken place, strictly from a legal point of view, there is no complete evidence: “I can say that it is very likely that everything happened exactly as the children said, but in an objective legal framework, I believe that it is not a complete proof for all categories. Often there is no logic in their words. Maybe it’s a false memory. As the children (defendants) said, there is no consistency, plausibility and other criteria established by science for evaluation. Memory is subjective and false memories can be implanted,” the prosecutor’s office said.

At the same time, the prosecutor referred to her verdict and to the question about the attitude maintained by the girls’ parents over the course of a number of years: become a danger to other children. They weakened the evidentiary process of this lawsuit. They leave me empty. I can’t understand that they sit in a coffee shop and see someone with a child in a hammock and do nothing,” he said sternly.

Since February last year, a 70-year-old man has been serving a 5-year sentence, which was assigned to him in the second degree in the case of sexual harassment of a 6-year-old girl in 2011-2013 in Oropos. where the perpetrator and victim were present with his parents. At first instance, he was sentenced to 12 years of probation.

Source: RES