It was retained guilty of the crime of aggravated bodily harm against his wife’s daughterAnd sentenced to a sentence of one year and two months, two months longer than what the honorary prosecutor had requested. The accusation, for a 48 year old foreigner, was that of having beat the girl because she was caught smoking and because he didn’t agree with her desire to attend university. For the prosecutor’s office, on August 13, 2022 he spat in her face, grabbed her by the hair, threw her to the ground, then kicked and punched her in the face and in other parts of the body, causing bruises with one 15 day prognosis.
At trial, the girl, now 22 years old, born in Italy, turned herself in civil party with the lawyer Marco Azzaliand got like compensation a provisional amount of 5000 euros, the remainder to be settled in a separate civil judgment. For the accused, assisted by the lawyer Caterina Pacificithe judge ordered the suspension of sentence subject to attending specific recovery courses for five years.
The 22-year-old told the police that she had been scolded by her mother who had received a photo of her daughter smoking a cigarette on her phone from a friend. The reaction of the accused was violent, as he had first offended her, telling her “You suck”, and then had spat in her face, grabbed her by the hair, thrown her to the ground and then hit her with kicks and punches all over her body. her body. She had taken refuge in her room, but she had been followed and hit again by her stepfather who had given her a punch to the face.
At that point the young woman had tried to leave the house, but he had followed her, grabbed her by the hair again, bringing her back inside the house. It was her sister who called the police after taking refuge in the bathroom.
The girl had told the officers about the rman’s disproportionate actions, who insulted her, telling both her and her sister that their father had abandoned them because they didn’t behave well. “He is a violent person and I am afraid of his reactions,” the young woman had verbalized Against his stepfather’s advice he wanted to attend university.
Today the man defended himself, denying all the accusationsclaiming only to have intervened to calm the frequent quarrels between mother and daughter. “The girl had an educational problem”the accused said in court: “he smoked, he had vices, he did everything, like leaving cigarette butts in the room, in the glasses, on the terrace. But I didn’t touch it“. When questioned about the bruises on the young woman’s face, the 48-year-old claimed that her stepdaughter had returned from a holiday in Ibiza with a swollen face.”
Also heard the mother of the girl who defended her husbandadmitting the arguments between her and her daughter, that she had been pushed by the girl and that she had given her two slaps. The defense tried to focus on the young woman’s lack of reliability,”censured at school due to a series of disciplinary sanctions“, but the judge had a different opinion. The defense will appeal.
The 22-year-old currently lives at an aunt’s house and studies at the university of Cremona.
Sara Pizzorni
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