D.G. v. GEORGIA

Published on 21 October 2024 FIFTH SECTIONApplication no. 17193/24D.G.against Georgialodged on 4 June 2024communicated on 2 October 2024SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASEThe application concerns various complaints raised under Articles 3 and 8 of the Convention relating to the applicant’s allegations of ill-treatment and abuse in a closed-type boarding school run by the Georgian Orthodox Church in Ninotsminda (“Ninotsminda Boarding School”) in the period between 2011 and 2019. On various dates between 2016 and 2021 four separate sets of criminal proceedings were initiated into the allegations of child abuse including sexual violence in the Ninotsminda Boarding School. The applicant’s various complaints have been investigated as a part of a criminal case opened on 15 November 2019 under Article 137 of the Criminal Code (the criminal offence of rape) and another criminal case opened on 3 June 2021 …