Court orders retrial in child labor case

ANKARA, Turkey, June 27 (UPI) -- A Turkish appeals court has ordered a retrial for a man acquitted of forcing his son to work as a shoeshine boy instead of going to school. The case will be returned to the local court in Adana for trial, Dogan news agency reported. If the man is acquitted again, the case will be transferred to a lower court of the Supreme Court of Appeals. During the trial, the father denied the charge, saying he believed his son was in school. The boy denied he had been shining shoes when police took him into custody. The 10-year-old, identified only by the initials R.O., said he was not in school because the one he applied for said there was no room. The judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals suggested neither the father nor the son was telling the truth. "That the 10-year-old victim was working as a shoe... [read full story]