Posts tagged with "abuse"

Church in Australia rejects abuse reporting, defying new laws Oceania

Church in Australia rejects abuse reporting, defying new laws

August 31st, 2018 The Catholic church in Australia said on Friday it would oppose laws forcing priests to report child abuse when they learn about it in the confessional, setting the stage for a showdown between the country's biggest religion and the government. Pope Francis, leader of the world's 1.3 billion Catholics, is facing sexual abuse crises...
Man jailed for abusing stepdaughter Cyprus

Man jailed for abusing stepdaughter

June 28th, 2018 A 50-year-old man from Nicosia was sentenced on Thursday to seven years in prison for each of the 68 charges he was found guilty of concerning the sexual exploitation of his stepdaughter. The sentences will run concurrently. The offences took place between 2008 and 2013 when the child was between 10 and 15 and the defendant 40 and...
The neglect and abuse of elders Guest Columnist

The neglect and abuse of elders

June 24th, 2018 By Andonis Vassiliades The elderly woman fell off her wheelchair. Three residential home carers were sitting in the office just opposite chatting and smoking in a strictly no smoking environment. Another carer came out of the kitchen, walked past the woman and proceeded to clean the veranda. The woman was wailing for someone to...
Eyes wide shut: post-mortem of an abuse case Opinion

Eyes wide shut: post-mortem of an abuse case

May 6th, 2018 By Michael Pyrgas Doctor: You see her eyes are open. Gentlewoman: Ay, but their sense is shut (Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 5, scene 1). I chose to write this article after the dust has somewhat settled over the tragic death of a 34-year-old woman, Eleni Frantzi. She was recently found dead in her home, years after a sexual...
Police probe domestic violence case Cyprus

Police probe domestic violence case

April 2nd, 2018 Police are investigating a case involving the possession of a weapon, interference in court proceedings and family violence in Paphos. According to police, a woman reported her 41-year-old partner had threatened and hit her. When she contacted police and her parents he allegedly also threatened the parents. The man told them to...
Predator priest says he’s being crucified, insists he’s innocent Cyprus

Predator priest says he’s being crucified, insists he’s innocent

March 28th, 2018 By Andria Kades A priest who served time in prison for sexually harassing his foster daughter, Elena Frantzi, defended himself on Wednesday following a huge onslaught of disgust after the young woman was found dead in her home last week. The priest, identified as Father Stylianos, said in a radio interview that what has happened is...
Millennials leading the way in gender politics even in Cyprus Opinion

Millennials leading the way in gender politics even in Cyprus

November 26th, 2017 By Helen Sage The week that the Harvey Weinstein story surfaced, I immediately thought – as I guess many women did – of the personal injustices I had endured as a woman. I thought back to Saturday and Sunday evenings in Paphos on holiday with my family. On hot summer nights after dinner, families would promenade from the castle...
Link between drug use and violence is complex Health

Link between drug use and violence is complex

November 17th, 2017 THE link between drug use and domestic violence is complex and strong, and international studies suggest that 61 percent of those who commit domestic violence are also either using or abusing substances. When a 14-year-old girl was found unconscious on Wednesday in the centre of Nicosia after using drugs, and a mother who allegedly...
Paphos mayor attracts abuse at lunch Cyprus

Paphos mayor attracts abuse at lunch

October 20th, 2017 Paphos Mayor Phedonas Phedonos was verbally abused earlier this week while taking EU guests to lunch and has since reported the incident, police confirmed on Friday. The incident, reported in daily Phileleftheros took place at the harbour in Kato Paphos when Phedonos spotted a man selling water sports tickets at the pier. The practise...
Report claims Turkish Cypriot service knew of property abuses   Cyprus

Report claims Turkish Cypriot service knew of property abuses  

September 18th, 2017 Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos’ claims of rampant corruption at the Turkish Cypriot Properties’ Administration Service of the Republic of Cyprus were corroborated in an internal report prepared by the service’s acting director, according to daily Politis. Citing the service’s strategic plan from 2017 to 2019, the paper said...
Suspect in Paphos dead fox case denies involvement Cyprus

Suspect in Paphos dead fox case denies involvement

October 14th, 2016 THE main suspect in a case of animal cruelty in Paphos involving a fox has protested his innocence, according to police. On Wednesday night, an as yet unidentified man appears to have dragged a fox behind his car, tied with a rope, and then displayed the dead and bloodied body, on his car bonnet. The car was then parked in an area...
Paphos reeling as dead fox displayed in public Cyprus

Paphos reeling as dead fox displayed in public

October 13th, 2016 RESIDENTS of Paphos have reacted with horror after another case of animal cruelty has been highlighted and then publicly displayed. Images of the dead animal have gone viral on social media and other web based sites. On Wednesday night, an as yet unidentified man appears to have dragged a fox behind his car, tied with a rope, and then...
Hijacker’s court hearing adjourned for defence to prepare (Update) Cyprus

Hijacker’s court hearing adjourned for defence to prepare (Update)

May 20th, 2016   THE court hearing for the extradition of hijacker Seif Eldin Mustafa to Egypt will resume next Thursday, the Nicosia district court said on Friday. Mustafa, 59, was arrested on March 29, after he hijacked a domestic Egyptair flight wearing a fake suicide belt and engaged in a dramatic standoff with authorities at Larnaca...
Dealing with violence in schools Cyprus

Dealing with violence in schools

April 9th, 2016 THE Education ministry’s ‘direct intervention unit’ (OAP), that deals with violence and delinquency, responded to more than 1,000 requests from primary, secondary and technical schools in the past six years, it was announced on Friday. OAP and its ‘Observatory on Violence in School’ programme was established in 2010 as one...
Reports of abuse at Ayios Stefanos ‘exaggerated’ Cyprus

Reports of abuse at Ayios Stefanos ‘exaggerated’

March 18th, 2016 REPORTS of beatings and abuse at the Ayios Stefanos home for mentally handicapped people are under investigation, but are almost certainly exaggerated, according to the welfare office. In the past two days, reports suggest that serious charges have been made against the Limassol foundation, including reports of employees severely...
Vergas’ brother charged and released (Update 2) Cyprus

Vergas’ brother charged and released (Update 2)

May 22nd, 2015 Former Paphos Mayor Savvas Vergas’ brother Charalambos was arrested just after midnight in connection with threatening a Politis journalist. Charalambos Vergas was arrested at 12.40am despite denying the accusations claiming the journalist verbally attacked him. He was charged and released at around 10am on Saturday. According...
Teachers union urges caution in abuse investigation Cyprus

Teachers union urges caution in abuse investigation

March 18th, 2015 Fingers should not be pointed at the teachers of the pre-school where a four-year-old girl was reportedly sexually harassed by three older boys, until investigations are over teachers’ union POED said on Wednesday. Following the uproar created by the claims of the four-year-old girl’s mother who sent a letter to the education...
‘Serious misgivings’ over treatment of detainees Cyprus

‘Serious misgivings’ over treatment of detainees

December 10th, 2014 By Angelos Anastasiou Claims of abuse, physical violence towards detainees, and improper use of tear gas, are included in a report on Cyprus by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT), released on Tuesday. The CPT performed spot checks in various detention...
Abuse against women lower than EU averages Cyprus

Abuse against women lower than EU averages

December 2nd, 2014 Although physical, sexual and psychological abuse against women in Cyprus is lower than the EU average, it is still high, Ombudswoman Eliza Savvidou said on Tuesday. Around 22 per cent of Cypriot women over the age of 15 currently fall victim to physical and sexual abuse and 39 per cent suffer psychological abuse. Savvidou, whose...
‘New era for animal welfare’ Cyprus

‘New era for animal welfare’

November 14th, 2014 By Jean Christou Police have secured 40 convictions for animal abuse and six cases are currently under investigation, Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou said on Friday. He said over the last three years 107 cases had been investigated, 63 in the last 18 months alone, which he said, indicated the increased importance that was being...
Animal party to set up vigilance teams Cyprus

Animal party to set up vigilance teams

July 30th, 2014 The Animal Party said it will set up vigilance groups across the island to tackle the growing number of animal abuse incidents. The party said it was concerned by the developments, which did not honour the citizens and the country. It added that it was receiving information about animal abuse on a daily basis, a fact that the state...
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