Aggravated sexual assault against a minor. With this accusation, a 65-year-old school assistant from a middle school in Taurianova was suspended. The measure was carried out by the Carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Reggio Calabria, coordinated by the Prosecutor Emanuele Crescenti and the Deputy Prosecutor Letterio De Domenico of the Palmi Prosecutor’s Office.
The investigation
The facts date back to 2023, when the victim, a thirteen-year-old student at the time, was attending her last year of middle school in the school complex where the suspect works who, during the afternoon activities, had first begun to address her with welcomed, and then began to follow her as she moved along the corridors. After months of this harassment, the man had taken advantage of a break from lessons to follow the girl into the bathrooms, block her escape route and grope her private parts. The police investigation was initiated by the same student who, deeply upset, had confessed the abuse of which she had been the victim to her parents and her closest friends. With their comfort, she showed up at the Carabinieri station in Taurianova, to report everything to the military. The immediate activation of the Red Code, the legislative measure introduced to guarantee timely reaction by the police and the judiciary to gender crimes, such as family abuse, stalking and sexual violence.
What affected the assessments carried out by the Palmi investigating judge, Anna Laura Ascioti, was, among other things, the confirmation given to the victim’s statements by an audio recording that the latter had started with her mobile phone, once she realized that she had not be able to escape your attacker. The vocal track, which retraces those terrible minutes, ends only once the suspect leaves her alone in the bathroom, after having ordered her to remain silent about the incident: “Don’t say anything, please, ca m’attaccanu” Don’t say anything, please, or they’ll arrest me.”
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