{"id":109719,"date":"2011-06-29T12:12:50","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T07:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=109719"},"modified":"2011-06-29T12:12:50","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T07:12:50","slug":"armenian-businessman-accused-of-pedophilia-case-to-be-heard-on-july-6-aravot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/06\/29\/armenian-businessman-accused-of-pedophilia-case-to-be-heard-on-july-6-aravot.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Businessman Accused of Pedophilia Case to be Heard on July 6: Aravot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutor with the RA General Prosecutor Department for Investigation by National Security Agencies Hovsep Sargsyan informed local daily Aravot (&#8220;Morning&#8221;) that the case of president and owner of Metal Prince Ltd. Corporation and Akhtala Ore Processing Plant CJSC Serop Der-Boghossian, who was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2011\/02\/10\/armenian-american-businessman-arrested-in-child-sex-scandal.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>arrested in February<\/strong><\/span><\/a> on sex abuse charges, will be heard in the Lori District Court of First Instance on Jul. 6.<\/p>\n<p>The daily reports that, most likely, the first court session will be open to the public; however, protecting the interests and rights of the victims (10 are named in the case), subsequent sessions will take place behind closed doors.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2011\/06\/10\/ra-general-prosecutor-confirms-indictment-against-accused-in-pedophilia-case.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>previously reported<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, Der-Boghossian is charged under RA Criminal Code Article 139 Section 2 Paragraph 3 (violent sexual acts done against a minor) and Section 3 (\u201cThe actions mentioned in part 1 or 2 of this Article done against an aggrieved under 14 years of age\u201d). The RA General Prosecutor, in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genproc.am\/en\/121\/item\/6694\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">earlier statement<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, stated that, between 2004\u20132010, Der-Boghossian paid young boys, orphans from poor families, &#8220;to have sexual intercourse with him against their will.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If found guilty, Der-Boghossian faces up to 15 years of imprisonment.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The case of president and owner of Metal Prince Ltd. Corporation and Akhtala Ore Processing Plant CJSC Serop Der-Boghossian&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[65942,21584,21582,27846],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}