Suicide teen lived in ‘abusive environment from the day he was born’

Stylianos Constantinou, the 15-year-old boy who ended his life by suicide in 2019, “was forced to grow up in this abusive environment from the day he was born”, the Nicosia district court heard on Thursday, as the trial of 11 suspects into the circumstances surrounding his death began.

In total, 218 charges have been brought against 11 people – Constantinou’s parents and nine employees of the social welfare services department – regarding the circumstances surrounding his death.

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