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Thanks to supporters from mum fined for protecting daughter
By Jacqueline Theodoulou
THE MOTHER of young Hannah, a sexually abused girl who has been let down by the Cyprus judicial system, wants to send a warm thank you to the Cyprus Mail readers, after they joined forces to help her pay a related fine.

Maria (not her real name) was made to pay €1,000 after being found guilty of two contempt of court orders, forcing Hannah into seeing her father - the man who was charged with incest, raping and sexually abusing his daughter. The charges were dropped after years of postponed court cases.

“I am always so thankful towards you and your readers,” Maria told the Mail on Friday. “It’s comforting to know that there is so much support. It helps to know that people are there and thinking of us.”

Maria said there was no way she could’ve paid the fine in the time given, if it wasn’t for the concerned public’s help. “I could probably have been in jail right now,” she pointed out; a development that would have had unthinkable consequences on nine-year-old Hannah.

As previously reported, the little girl has been left devastated and her trust in people severed following the Court’s decision to overthrow the case - four years after the father had been charged by police. Hannah, then aged eight, was left to deal with the fact that the authorities didn’t believe her and had deemed her an unreliable witness. The Attorney-general’s decision to order the case be dismissed was based on the fact that the alleged crime had taken place when she was just four and she therefore couldn’t remember clearly what had happened.

The AG, meanwhile, has refused to answer the Cyprus Mail’s questions over why this serious case was being dragged out for so many years, saying it was not within his authority to do anything about it.

Maria has had to face 11 contempt of court charges so far for refusing to force her daughter into seeing her father, who was astonishingly awarded unsupervised access to Hannah by a Family Court, while the dad’s trial was still on-going.

Maria has another three contempt charges to defend herself against, one of which she is already halfway through.

She has so far been acquitted of nine contempt charges and found guilty of two, hence the €1,000 fine, €500 each

“I just want to say thank you,” Maria tells our readers. “Many of you I don’t know personally and I have been overwhelmed by the support we have received. It gives me the strength to carry on fighting.”


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[Oracle]

Typical Cyprus Mail gooble-de-gook!

[zan]

I just thought it was strange that they left the fathers name out...Who are they protecting~????

[humanist]

what's the point of your post Zan? If you going to dig up anything to potray Cypriots as bed people, go right ahead because we could dig much more to show the real face of Turks, We are just much more educated than Turks to be able to stick to the topic of Turkish occupation of our country.

[Oracle]

I just thought it was strange that they left the fathers name out...Who are they protecting~????

Well they probably couldn't be bothered to make up a pseudonym for him for this non-entity of fairy-tale reporting from fantasy-land

[zan]

what's the point of your post Zan? If you going to dig up anything to potray Cypriots as bed people, go right ahead because we could dig much more to show the real face of Turks, We are just much more educated than Turks to be able to stick to the topic of Turkish occupation of our country.

Wrong choice of words in this case dear...You should promise yourself not to post when you have had a COCKTAIL of dope and poppers....

[Zorba]

I just thought it was strange that they left the fathers name out...Who are they protecting~????

Its gary glitter ,sssh