A teacher has been sentenced to 6 months in prison, suspended for three years, for a phrase with a sexual innuendo directed at a female student, according to a Thessaloniki court ruling.
More specifically, the Three-Member Court of Appeal for Minor Crimes found him guilty – and in the second degree – of child abuse, with the recognition of a mitigating factor of prior lawful life.
The incident, according to the complaint, occurred in May 2021 at a private educational institution where the 17-year-old, then high school student was attending. The disputed phrase was said in response to a concern raised by the student regarding the subject matter of the lesson that preceded it.
“I have been a teacher for 30 years and I never gave any rights,” the professor said in his apology, citing misinterpretation. And he apologised that the incident took place at the end of the educational process before the students left and in front of them, which contradicted what the 22-year-old – now – complainant said.
Calling for the defendant’s conviction, the trial prosecutor commenting on the disputed phrase spoke of “sexual innuendo” and found contradictions in what the defendant claimed, in contrast to the complainant’s “reliable, solid and uncontradicted” testimony.
