Athens police officers admit sexual acts at station, reject rape allegations

Two of three constabulary officers connected trial for alleged rape of a 19-year-old woman wrong a cardinal Athens constabulary station successful October '22 person admitted successful tribunal to having intersexual intercourse with the complainant while connected duty, but denied immoderate coercion, insisting the enactment was consensual.

The defendants, testifying earlier a Mixed Jury Court successful Athens, described their actions, astatine Omonia constabulary station, arsenic a “mistake” and “inappropriate for officers connected duty,” while maintaining that the woman showed nary absorption oregon signs of refusal.

The third officer, the caput of their DIAS motorbike constabulary unit, stated helium was unaware of immoderate incidental occurring wrong the station’s locker rooms that night.

According to the lawsuit file, the three officers brought the 19-year-old to the constabulary station, where two of them are accused of engaging successful intersexual acts with her successful the locker room, with the alleged acts besides captured connected video.

One suspect told the tribunal the woman initially approached his patrol unit, while it was connected work successful the Thissio area, astir two kilometers from Omonia, seeking accusation and to record a complaint, aboriginal exchanging interaction details.

He claimed the woman was waiting for them astatine the station when they returned to basal and decided, erstwhile she was there, not to record her archetypal complaint.

He added that, when they were wrong the building, she enquired astir the locker rooms, expressed attraction to uniformed officers and initiated carnal contact, which helium said led to consensual intercourse. He acknowledged, however, that the brushwood should not person occurred while connected duty.

The 2nd accused officer, besides charged with signaling intersexual enactment via a body-worn camera, said helium neither pressured the woman nor observed immoderate resistance. He claimed the signaling was accidental, stating helium was unaware the instrumentality was active.

The presiding justice besides questioned why the officers shared details of the constabulary station with an unknown woman and brought her into interior areas, raising concerns astir imaginable maltreatment of authority. The suspect described the determination arsenic a “serious mistake.”

The third serviceman testified that helium had nary consciousness of the events, had nary interaction with the complainant, and afloat trusted his colleagues, stating helium would person acted had helium known. He rejected immoderate suggestion of maltreatment of power.

The trial will proceed connected June 18 with the prosecutor’s recommendation.