TERAMO. It took the courage of a mother, who she didn’t pretend not to see, to get this story to the prosecutor’s office. Because from her complaint the investigation started which triggered the arrest of her ex-partner on the heavy accusation of having abused her minor son, a boy born from a previous relationship of the woman and who at the time of the facts had 16 years.
The man, a 35-year-old, was sentenced yesterday morning to four years and two months with the abbreviated sentence (which provides for the reduction of a third of the sentence in the event of conviction) before the judge Roberto Veneziano who had previously rejected the request for a two-year plea bargain for the accused, defining the sentence as inappropriate. With the abbreviated procedure the Prosecutor’s Office (file of the prosecutor Francesca Zanithe prosecutor in the courtroom Ettore Picardi) had asked for a three-year sentence. The boy and his mother joined as civil parties represented by the lawyer Libera D’Amelio. In addition to sexual violence, the man is accused of private violence for having ordered the boy not to tell anyone what happened “otherwise”, as we read in a Whatsapp message in the investigation documents, “our lives would have been ruined ». The man (defended by the lawyer Davide Occhipinti) remains detained in Novara prison, the city where he was arrested at the time while he was visiting some relatives. A reconstruction, the one that emerges from the precautionary measure order, according to which the abuse would have occurred during the night hours and when the boy’s mother was not there. Complete with messages on Whatsapp which in the ordinance are defined as “sexually explicit in content” with which he repeatedly invited him to meet with him. The investigation was triggered by the complaint from the mother of the minor, who was living with the man at the time, who had sensed something in her son’s attitude that immediately made her suspicious. Until the boy’s dramatic story. She accusations which the young man then confirmed during the evidentiary hearing requested and obtained to crystallize the minor’s testimony. The first step was the commissioning of a psychological assessment to establish the reliability of the minor. Mandatory passage as established by the Noto Charter which has long dictated the guidelines for the examination of minors in cases of sexual abuse.
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