Supreme court increases man’s sentence for child sexual assault
The supreme court on Monday increased a 46-year-old man’s prison sentence from four to seven years, after judging the original sentence for sexual assault was...
child sexual abuse
Urgent need for national strategy for sexually abused children
Cyprus saw 368 recorded cases of sexual harassment against children in two years yet less than 11 per cent proceeded to court according to data...
Man jailed for sexually abusing daughter (updated)
A 59-year-old man was sentenced to six years in jail in Larnaca on Friday after he was found guilty of sexual abuse of a child....
Jail for child abuser in Paphos
The Paphos Criminal Court on Friday sentenced a 60-year-old man to 3.5 years in prison after being found guilty of child sexual abuse. The man...
Ten years jail for child abuser
A 42-YEAR-OLD man was sentenced to ten years in jail on Monday after he was found guilty by the Limassol criminal court of sexually abusing...
Two imprisoned for separate cases of sexual assault of minor (updated)
The Limassol district court on Tuesday imposed a two-year prison sentence on a 75-year-old man who was found guilty of sexually abusing a minor. The...
Former Vatican treasurer Pell jailed for 6 years for sexual attack on boys
By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE, March 13 (Reuters) – Former Vatican treasurer Cardinal George Pell was sentenced to six years in jail on Wednesday for sexually...
French cardinal convicted of failing to act on sex abuse allegations
A French court convicted the Roman Catholic archbishop of Lyon on Thursday of failing to act on historic allegations of sexual abuse of boy scouts...
Vatican treasurer convicted of sexually abusing 13-year-old boys
By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE, Feb 26 (Reuters) – Vatican treasurer Cardinal George Pell has been found guilty on five charges of child sexual abuse committed...
Grandfather acquitted of molestation after court finds ‘unfair trial’
THE supreme court on Thursday overturned a guilty verdict passed on a 72-year-old who had been previously sentenced to seven years in jail for sexually...
Three years and counting for suspected predator to go on trial
By Evie Andreou Children’s Rights Commissioner, Leda Koursoumba, slammed authorities on Friday for the delay in the trial of a man accused of sexually abusing...
One in four children experience some form of sexual abuse in Cyprus
Surveys in Cyprus show that one in four children experience some kind of sexual abuse at some stage of their lives, according the Voice Council,...
Public can weigh in on harsher penalties for crimes involving violence against women
By Evie Andreou The public has until the end of the month an opportunity to express their opinion on a bill aiming at updating the...
President blames system weakness for molester’s early release
President Nicos Anastasiades expressed regret on Wednesday after a convicted child molester was released early from prison and returned home without the knowledge of...
Social services defend actions in Frantzi abuse case
Social welfare services on Wednesday said that a police investigation had found nothing against the social worker dealing with the woman who said she had...
Man found guilty of repeatedly abusing partner’s daughter
The Nicosia Criminal Court on Friday found a 35-year-old man guilty of the repeated sexual abuse, for around a year-and-a-half, of the now 11-year-old daughter...
Man sentenced for sexual abuse of seven year old
A 46-year-old man was sentenced on Tuesday to seven years in prison after being found guilty by the Nicosia criminal court of the sexual abuse...
Sex education not optional AG rules
By Evie Andreou The attorney-general has ruled that parents should have no say as to the content of sexual education modules taught in state schools,...
New centre will ease horrors of filing child abuse cases
A Children’s Home, where minors who are victims of abuse or sexual exploitation can file complaints and receive support, is expected to be opened by...
Jail for man who harassed young girl
A 36-year-old man from Paphos was sentenced on Monday to 18 months in prison for sexually harassing a six-year-old girl. The man had pleaded guilty...
