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    VILLAGE MAYOR DENIES PEDOPHILIA ACCUSATION, SAYS HE IS BEING 'BLACKMAILED'
    Azat Ghukasyan

    http://www.armenianow.com/society/36008/pedophilia_syunik_hartashen_village
    Society | 28.02.12 | 15:25

    Photo: syunik.gov.am

    The news of another pedophilia case in Armenia's southern Syunkik
    province is making headlines in the local media, meanwhile the Police
    in the province have opened a case against Hartashen village mayor
    and teacher of gymnastics at the village school Azat Ghukasyan,
    under Article of the Criminal Code of Armenia (lecherous acts with
    a person obviously under 16).

    According to an article published in the online daily Hetq, recently at
    the lesson of gymnastics Ghukasyan told students of the eighth form to
    "play quietly" and ordered one of the female students, who is mentally
    retarded, to follow him and, as the relatives of the young woman claim,
    raped her.

    The Police report no other information about the case, reasoning that
    it is necessary for the sake secrecy of the preliminary investigation.

    On Tuesday, Ghukasyan, who, is not arrested yet, told ArmeniaNow that
    he was at the Police office, and that he was preparing to testify. He
    denied all the accusations brought against him, saying that he was
    being blackmailed. The 50-year-old head of the village answered the
    questions evasively and did not provide more details as to who and why
    is blackmailing him. Ghukasyan has been mayor of Hartashen since 2002,
    and in 1995-2002 he was the headmaster of the village school.

    Ghukasyan is married and has four children.

    Two years ago, Levon Avagyan, a former Armenian language teacher
    at a boarding school for children with special needs in Nubarashen,
    was charged with a similar offense, and was sentenced to two years in
    prison. And last year U.S.-Armenian businessman Serop Der-Boghossian
    was convicted and sentenced to 15 years in jail for sexual abuse of ten
    10-16-year-old boys. Currently lawmakers and NGOs are discussing the
    issue of applying voluntary or compulsory chemical castration against
    people who have committed crimes of sexual nature against children.

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