A shocking case of sexual exploitation of three underage migrants with health problems and intellectual disabilities who were housed at the PIKPA facility on Leros will be tried by the Mixed Jury Court of Rhodes on December 1, 2025, after postponements. The defendant is a Greek national who worked at the facility and is charged with continuous and serial rape, sexual acts with a minor (child molestation) under twelve years of age on a continuous and serial basis, abuse leading to indecency on a continuous basis, and indecency with abuse of power on a continuous and serial basis.
The chronicle of horror at Leros PIKPA
On November 3, 2020, a foreign woman residing at the Leros PIKPA went to the Leros Police Station and reported that the defendant, while working for a cleaning company at the facility, had been sexually “harassing” the son of another resident since February 2020. The victim was then 17 years old and had been diagnosed with intellectual disability, while the perpetrator also abused her other 4-year-old son.
Furthermore, she reported that none of the residents at PIKPA wanted to come close to the defendant because he exhibited deviant behavior towards minor children.
The minor was properly examined in the presence of a psychologist and testified that the defendant, almost daily, would remove his pants, touch his genitals, and force him to touch the defendant’s genitals as well. He also reported that the same incidents occurred with his two brothers. Additionally, he stated that the defendant committed unnatural indecency with him on November 2, 2020.
The same incidents (except for the act of unnatural indecency) were reported by the minor not only to his mother but also to the director of the Reception and Identification Center, who immediately proceeded with the defendant’s dismissal. Subsequently, a forensic medical examination of the family’s seven children was ordered, and evidence of abuse was found in three of them.
Another child who was examined showed signs of abuse. The same pattern was observed in another minor who, despite hearing and speech problems, and while appearing social and happy, would completely change his behavior at the sight of the defendant’s photograph or upon hearing his name mentioned.
Specifically, when examined in sign language before the Kos Investigator, he nodded affirmatively when asked if the defendant had removed his clothes and touched him, and showed with his fingers that the incident had occurred three times.
Subsequently, when the minor was asked if the defendant had sexually abused him, he turned pale and simultaneously nodded affirmatively, then attempted to hide behind the judicial bench.
Defendant denies the charges
The defendant, in his defense, denied the charges and stated that since early 2020 he had been working as a cleaner at the migrant hosting facility at Leros PIKPA, which has a small area and he would have been noticed.
The judicial council of Kos that examined the case determined that the defendant’s acts took place during nighttime hours, at a point in the courtyard, behind the building, where there is a shelter and a courtyard wall that delimits the premises and is not guarded by security personnel.
Regarding his claim that the complaint against him was the product of malice, revenge, and money-seeking in order for the minors’ parents to achieve their relocation, this was deemed false because the incident was initially reported by another resident of the facility, not the victims’ parents.
Additionally, it was determined that all three minors who were medically examined showed signs of injury in the anal area. Two of them described precisely the acts that the defendant committed against them, and other witnesses identified the location and approximate time when the defendant’s acts took place, namely almost daily during nighttime hours in the courtyard area.
Source: dimokratiki.gr
