Why is a child's statement not enough?

Imagine a guy whose 16-year-old daughter has accused him of sexual abuse. Not once or twice, but for six years.

Which child would accuse her father on such grounds over nothing? It could be incomplete or it could be exaggerated, but if a child says such a thing, it is considered true. 

The guy has been arrested and is facing 18 years in prison for "repeated child sexual abuse." However, the person remained in prison for a grand total of 25 days before being released. 

Felat Bozarslan from Doğan News Agency (DHA) wrote that even though the office of the prosecutor, the lawyer for the Family and Social Policies Ministry and the lawyer for the victim demanded the arrest of the father, who is from Diyarbakır, he was let out. 

The father cannot go near the house where the daughter lives with her sister and mother due to a restraining order, but these kids naturally leave the house and go to school. 

As a matter of fact, the father, as soon as he was released, went to his younger daughter's school and battered both his daughter and her friends. 

The court set this kind of man free. The 15-year-old younger sister has been heard as a witness in the court; she has also admitted that just like her older sister, she has been the victim of her father's sexual abuse.  

The court released the father and also failed to file a criminal complaint based on the younger daughter's admission in court.

This is a crime of sexual abuse. The court has clearly reached an opinion on whether or not this crime has been committed. Or perhaps it is passing it off as "simple harassment." As a matter of fact, this is not a crime that can be evaluated as harassment. It is a constantly ongoing crime; it is abuse. 

In any...