RAVENNA On the night of May 4th she went to a private party thinking she would only find a few friends. And instead in that place in Ravenna there were about seventy people, including the young man who would later rape her. A complaint, made by a 16-year-old student from Ravenna, following which a newly adult from the Romagna city was investigated for multiple aggravated sexual violence.
The Bolognese prosecutor for minors Caterina Sallusti may soon interrogate the suspect. Now however, according to what was reported to ‘Il Resto del Carlino’ by the girl’s mother, the 16-year-old is afraid of meeting him out and about. According to what was told by the young girl’s parents, protected by the lawyer Aldo Guerrini, the daughter had been accompanied by her father to that party: the man had left her there around 10.30pm, reassured by the fact that she was with kids like her. But after having had a few drinks, she alleged the 16-year-old was approached by a young man she did not know personally and was allegedly abused despite her telling him to stop.
That same night, once she returned home around 3.30 thanks to the passing of a friend’s mother, she confided in her ex-boyfriend on her cell phone: and it was the latter’s parents, after having in turn collected the confidence from the son, to warn the girl’s parents. “We were watching the Juventus-Roma match – the father recalled – when they called me outside the house and told me: ‘she was raped’. I felt as if they had punched me in the face, it didn’t seem real to me”. Then father and mother went to their daughter’s room who, suffocated by a sense of shame, had even expressed the intention of running away: “The world collapsed around me. I held her, I picked her up – she recalled the mother – She said to me: ‘Mom don’t cry’. I told her to calm down, it wasn’t her fault. I asked her if it hurt her, she showed me some marks on her thighs in Latvian”.
The following day the Radiomobile police seized her clothes. But above all, the 16-year-old, accompanied by her mother, had been visited in the emergency room in Ravenna. And just while she was at the gynecologist, her suspect, after having tracked down her number, had written to her referring to the incident: “you have ruined your life, you are no longer the girl you were before”, concluded her mother.
