I.K. AND T.K. v. GEORGIA

Published on 16 December 2024 FOURTH SECTIONApplication no. 6400/24I.K. and T.K. against Georgialodged on 22 February 2024communicated on 28 November 2024SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASEThe application concerns the respondent State’s procedural obligations under Articles 3 and 8 of the Convention, taken alone and in conjunction with Articles 13 and 14, on account of the alleged inadequacy of the criminal response to domestic abuses committed against the applicants, who are siblings, by their stepfather. The first applicant accused her stepfather of sexual abuses continuously perpetrated against her in the period between 2005 and March 2021, including those committed while she had still been a minor (she was born in 1991), whilst the second applicant, her brother (born in 1981), who is a person with physical impairment (deaf), accused the stepfather of psychological and harassment committed in …