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A bit of common sense
« on: Tuesday, 09 April, 2019 @ 03:17:40 »
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Greek Cleaning Lady Jail Sentence for Forged Certificate Commuted

An eight-year prison sentence for a Greek cleaning lady who forced a certificate saying she had gone far enough in elementary school to be eligible for a job was commuted to a three-year suspended sentence by an Appeals Court.

With people accused of major crimes like embezzlement being released from pre-detention jail after claiming they were ill the case of the woman became a cause celebre, with critics saying the harsh sentence was unfair given lenient treatment for political figures charged with crimes.
https://www.thenationalherald.com/238646/greek-cleaning-lady-jail-sentence-for-forged-certificate-commuted/

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The mother of thirteen, from Ioannina in northwestern Greece, had begun working at the city’s university hospital in 2003. She suddenly found herself facing legal problems when it emerged that she had secured the job by falsifying her primary school certificate to suggest she had graduated in 1980 rather than 1981.

The woman argued that she had falsified the certificate in order to find the job and support her children.

The cleaner, who was not named, thanked the Greek judicial system, her colleagues and Greek citizens for standing by her.

A strikingly similar case in the city of Volos, Thessaly, made national headlines last year, when a 53-year-old cleaner was sentenced to ten years in jail for the exact same crime.
https://greece.greekreporter.com/2019/04/08/greek-court-vacates-eight-year-jail-sentence-for-hospital-cleaner/