A man who earlier this month was acquitted of sexually abusing his partner’s teenage daughter today filed a judicial letter demanding compensation from the alleged victim and her husband, who at the time of the false allegations was her boyfriend.

The 54-year-old had been charged in 2006 with corrupting the girl and slightly injuring her.

The girl, then 16, started a relationship with a 20-year-old man whom her mother and her long-time partner disapproved of.

In January 2006, her boyfriend filed a report with the government agency Appoġġ, claiming his girlfriend had been beaten by her mother’s partner.

He retracted his allegations the next day but the agency still investigated and spoke to the girl, who told care workers she had been abused by her “step father” since she was nine.

She alleged he had touched her intimately and forced her to touch him, adding that he would beat her when she refused to work in the family bakery.

In his judicial letter the man said that he has lost his job because of the girl’s allegations and when he found a new one he lost that too.

The man said he spent eight years in proceedings which humiliated him and caused him indescribable suffering.

Lawyers Veronique Dalli and Dean Hili signed the letter.