TARANTO – A 56-year-old from the province of Taranto accused of mistreatment and injuries to his wife was sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison. Violence which, according to the woman’s story, had been going on for over 20 years and which only some time ago the woman found the courage to report, thus starting the investigation.
In the complaint that the woman presented through her lawyer, the lawyer Flaviano Boccassini, we read that with a disturbing frequency she was the target of physical, verbal and psychological violence from her ex-husband. And there were several occasions in which she had to resort to medical care, without ever actually revealing how those wounds had arrived.
In October 2019, for example, the blows inflicted by the man caused her to fracture her ribs, while on other occasions she found herself locked in the house with her son for the duration of her husband’s working day: in short, for eight hours, mother and son they were forced to remain segregated and away from the rest of the world. But there’s more, unfortunately. After every argument, she was insulted in every way and to make matters worse she was shown the door: she was kicked out of the house after being beaten. Meanwhile, her two sons, and one in particular, were beaten. «A demeaning and degrading lifestyle» we read in the documents of the investigation conducted by the judiciary. Furthermore, in the documents we read that again in 2019, yet another furious argument arose between the two when the woman discovered him visiting porn sites: the man’s fury at that moment was shown by throwing a bottle plastic bag full of water that hit his wife on the chest. Acute pain accompanied her for two days until in the first days of November she decided to go to the emergency room: the tests revealed the rib fractures to the point of requiring transfer and hospitalization.
In the end, as mentioned, the woman found the courage to reveal everything to the police and in the last few hours her husband was sentenced at the end of the first instance trial. The judge also ordered that a civil trial will have to quantify the amount of compensation that the woman will have to receive: the lawyer Boccassini, acting as a civil party, had formulated a damage request for 50 thousand euros.
