A man was on Thursday charged with the attempted murder of his son and daughter. The accused, who cannot be named due to a court order, faced a number of charges including attempting to murder his son and daughter or at least placing their life in clear danger by carrying out acts intended to lead to the execution of the crime. In separate charges,
Mr Justice Neville Camilleri has upheld a four-year prison sentence and treatment order for a man convicted of harassing and corrupting a nine-year-old girl. The court also imposed a three-year restraining order, ordered that the man’s name be included in the Register of Paedophiles and required him to pay €785 in court costs, as reported by TVM news
A man's four-year prison sentence for sexually abusing his partner's underage daughter was confirmed on appeal. The Appeals Court rejected the accused's claim that the evidence against him was not conclusive. It also gave short shrift to the accused's claim that suggestive comments he used to pass were jokes misinterpreted as some form of sexual abuse