1/16/2015
SYDNEY – The Australian ambassador to Spain, Jane Hardy, has resigned after her husband was indicted on charges of sexually abusing a minor at the diplomatic legation in Madrid, the local press reported Thursday.
Hardy agreed to resign her post, in which she had been set to continue until December 2015, after her husband, sculptor and painter Vytas Kapociunas, 71, was arrested in September at Canberra Airport.
According to the newspaper The Australian, Kapociunas, of Lithuanian origin, was recently indicted by a court in Canberra on two additional counts of sexual assault of a minor outside Australian territory.
He was already facing identical charges after Australian federal police intervened on a complaint from the mother of a child who accused the artist of kissing her daughter on the lips and groin, according to court documents cited by the newspaper.
Kapociunas admitted to the police to have met the minor three times and to having had physical contact, but denied the allegations that he sexually abused her.
Vytas Kapociunas married Hardy in 1982 and they had a son together.
The sculptor accompanied her when she served as her country’s ambassador to Kuala Lumpur, Seoul and Washington.
A spokesperson for the Australian Foreign Ministry confirmed Hardy’s resignation, stressing that there has been no complaint or allegation made against her, and that she would be reassigned to a post in Canberra.
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SYDNEY – The Australian ambassador to Spain, Jane Hardy, has resigned after her husband was indicted on charges of sexually abusing a minor at the diplomatic legation in Madrid, the local press reported Thursday.Hardy agreed to resign her post, in which she had been set to continue until December 2015, after her husband, sculptor and painter Vytas Kapociunas, 71, was arrested in September at Canberra Airport.
According to the newspaper The Australian, Kapociunas, of Lithuanian origin, was recently indicted by a court in Canberra on two additional counts of sexual assault of a minor outside Australian territory.
He was already facing identical charges after Australian federal police intervened on a complaint from the mother of a child who accused the artist of kissing her daughter on the lips and groin, according to court documents cited by the newspaper.
Kapociunas admitted to the police to have met the minor three times and to having had physical contact, but denied the allegations that he sexually abused her.
Vytas Kapociunas married Hardy in 1982 and they had a son together.
The sculptor accompanied her when she served as her country’s ambassador to Kuala Lumpur, Seoul and Washington.
A spokesperson for the Australian Foreign Ministry confirmed Hardy’s resignation, stressing that there has been no complaint or allegation made against her, and that she would be reassigned to a post in Canberra.
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