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maltatoday SUNDAY 15 APRIL 2018 4 News CAREER OPPORTUNITY ICT Service Manager Interested persons are to send a covering le�er together with a detailed Curriculum Vitae by not later than 22nd April 2018, address to Human Resources Unit, Iden�ty Malta Agency, Onda Building, Aldo Moro Street, Marsa. Applicants may also send by email to recruitment@iden�tymalta.com Job Description: Responsible to the Chief Officer, the successful candidate shall provide assistance to the HR Unit, keep abreast with local and European legislation and provide advice, guidance and support to ensure that H&S statutory requirements are met at all times. Duties and responsabilities: · To oversee and advise on all aspects related to Health and Safety. · Establish, formulate and draw up H&S standards, processes and procedures for the various functions of the Agency · To monitor adherence to H&S standards, processes and procedures · To participate, and assist, in training programmes and the co-ordination thereof to educate and encourage all employees to comply with · H&S standards and regulations in line with the Agency staff development, training policies and requirements. · To provide advice, guidance and support to ensure that H&S statutory requirements are complied with and that the health and safety of the employees is never place at risk when fulling their duties. · To investigate work place accidents, identity causes and advice on improvements deemed necessary for mitigating risk · To represent and assist the Agency in judicial proceedings · To carry out other duties related to H&S activities as may be assigned by the Chief Executive Officer or his delegated officer. Qualifications required: A bachelor degree (Level 6) in occupational health and safety or a related subject. Good written and verbal communication. Customer service skills. Have a positive, proactive approach to working and able to represent the Agency in a professional manner. Experience of working in an office environment and qualifications in Office Administration or Customer Care will be considered an asset. Manager (Health & Safety) JOBSPLUS Permit Number: 148/2018 MATTHEW AGIUS A man has been emphatically cleared of showing pornographic videos to his four-year-old daugh- ter in 2009, with a court ruling that the girl's story was maliciously cre- ated by her mother – a police of- ficer. The 36-year-old man from Rabat, who cannot be named by order of the court, was falsely accused by his estranged partner, a police of- ficer who works at the corp's Flo- riana headquarters, of sexually corrupting his daughter on two occasions. The WPC is not being named to protect the identity of the couple's daughter. The criminal complaint against the father – filed in 2006 – had al- leged that he had defiled the girl on two occasions, once in 2009 when he allegedly showed the four-year- old a pornographic video and lewd pictures, and again in 2015 when he left the same material on a de- vice which he passed on to his daughter. The minor had testified via vide- oconferencing, telling the court she had been at her father's house and had seen him perusing indecent images on his mobile phone, telling him to stop and covering her eyes. A short while later, the girl claimed the accused had continued to watch adult material on his mobile "but this time the pictures became a video that her father had received through Bluetooth, involving two girls and one boy." The girl told the court that she had not told anyone about this in- cident until she was 10, when she revealed the story to her cousin, who informed the girl's aunt, who then informed the mother. But Magistrate Audrey Demicoli noted that the girl gave no explana- tion as to why she had let so much time pass before speaking out. The girl had only reluctantly told the court that the daughter of the ac- cused's girlfriend had also seen it when she had been clearing her phone. The girl also took a long time to identify her father in court and started to claim that she didn't know him, blurting out that her mother would make her recount everything that happened when- ever she returned from meeting her father. The accused had denied the charges, saying however that he had on one occasion viewed adult material himself but that he had reformatted the device before giv- ing it to his daughter. Magistrate Demicoli decreed that she was morally convinced that the girl was not telling the truth, but was in fact, repeating a story that she had been told to tell by third parties, deduced both from her demeanour and the fact that "the Court finds it very hard to believe how a 10-year-old girl could have understood and remembered all that detail about a video she had seen six years before." The magistrate said the fact that she had claimed to have closed her eyes, but had then proceeded to give a detailed account of what was going on in the video and was re- luctant to identify her father, were indications that the girl did not wish to say those words because the events they describe had not actually taken place, the court said. Evidence also pointed to the mother doing "all she could to in- dicate the animosity she held to- wards the father of the child," the magistrate said. The magistrate also said that it was evident that the mother had heard about the girl and her cous- in having seen the adult film, and "seized the opportunity to fabri- cate the story about when the girl was four years old." In fact both girls gave wildly vary- ing descriptions of it: one said it involved two women and a man engaged in sexual activity, another saying it was a naked woman swim- ming. One girl said that the other showed the film to her, whilst the other said it was found by accident when she had been deleting items at the first girl's request. The court said it did not doubt that the girls saw something, but there was no link to the accused. "It is the belief of the court that it is true that two children saw a video which they should not have seen but nowhere from the evidence does it emerge that the accused had been aware of the existence of this video in 2015 or that he had showed it to his daughter in 2009." A witness for the prosecution al- so claimed that the accused bought the mobile phone in question in 2009, but the phone model in ques- tion had not even been in produc- tion at the time. In view of all this, the court said the prosecution had "in no way" proven its case and declared the man innocent. The accused, who spoke to this newspaper, claimed his estranged partner had made numerous re- ports about him to the police, all of which turned out to be false, and he accused her of infidelity. He said she filed a total of 17 reports against him, for each of which the man was arrested, mostly for not paying maintenance – a criminal offence in Malta – but also for ne- glecting and harming the girl. The man says he was clear of 16 charges and is appealing one decision. Lawyer Alfred Abela appeared for the man, while lawyer Albert Zerafa appeared parte civile for the woman. Inspector Joseph Busuttil prosecuted. magius@mediatoday.com.mt Man cleared of corrupting daughter after court finds allegations could have been fabricated Church school educators to get higher allowances five months later KURT SANSONE CHURCH school educators will have to wait a while longer to receive higher allowances in line with the sectoral agreement reached last December. The new allowance structure came into force on 1 January but while State school educa- tors started benefitting from the increases at the start of the year, those in church schools were left waiting. However, the Education Minis- try has now told MaltaToday that agreement has been reached with the Secretariat for Church schools so that May's payslip will reflect the increases. "By June all arrears should be settled," a ministry spokesperson said, when presented with the concerns raised by various educa- tors, who spoke to MaltaToday. Church school teachers, learning support educators and kindergar- ten educators, will receive arrears backdated to 1 January. The sectoral agreement between the Malta Union of Teachers and the government covered State and church school educators. Under the terms of the Church- State agreement, the salaries of educators in church schools are paid for by the government. The ministry spokesperson said that while government has direct control over the salaries of State school teachers, in the case of church schools, the funds to cover the payroll expenditure are trans- ferred to the church schools' sec- retariat. No explanation was given for the delay. The minor had testified that she had seen her father perusing indecent images on his mobile phone