The horror within the walls of the house would continue for years. At the time of the first events, when it all began, she was only 15 years old. She would have been raped by her older brother – about 20 years older than her – as a “pledge” for helping her get to Italy, from Ghana: scared and at the mercy of her brother’s authority, she would have suffered in silence for at least 3 years until the decision to run away from home and tell everything to her boyfriend, who until then had been unaware of everything. Then the investigations, and now the trial in Brescia.
The process
The friends and former schoolmates of the girl, now in her early twenties, have already been heard in the courtroom: in June her brother will also be called, although already present in court, accused of aggravated sexual assault. According to what was reconstructed by the investigators, and also confirmed by the testimonies collected to date, the man pretended to be the girl’s father to thus obtain her reunification and allow her to remain in Italy. Once she arrived in the province, he would take advantage of her by forcing her to have sexual intercourse against her will: up to twice a week.
At home for years she would have been treated like a sad Cinderella: she couldn’t go out, she had to take care of her brother’s jobs and children, always at the latter’s service. All this, as mentioned, up to the escape with which to rebuild a life. She reported everything to the police who started investigations: the documents, shared with the Prosecutor’s Office, led to the indictment.
