This is an article from today's national paper. The gist is that a man did not pay maintenance for 9 months. Each month the mother made a police report. Then they charged him with 9 different crimes!

The first court presided by a woman magistrate upheld the request to consider them as 9 crimes but read what happens when he appeals from the sentence in front of a much more knowledgeable male judge. https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/prosecutors-abusing-law-child-support-cases-appeals-court-finds.1001098