On-call doctor accused of abusing nine young patients sentenced to ten years in prison.
This was decided by the preliminary hearing judge of Milan Luigi Iannelli at the end of the abbreviated trial for aggravated sexual assault and forgery, finding the 42-year-old professional guilty of all charges and accepting the request for punishment advanced by the prosecutor Alessia Menegazzo.
The doctor, who worked between Milan, San Giuliano Milanese and San Donato, had been the recipient of two precautionary custody orders, the last of which was house arrest, with the accusations of having abused patients under the pretext of examining them. After the first arrest following the complaint of a first patient, the cases had risen to four, then becoming seven between October 2022 and autumn 2023, and finally nine with further complaints.
The doctor, described by the investigating judge Cristian Mariani as "a serial rapist without inhibitions", allegedly used "fraudulent and sudden methods to overcome the resistance" of the victims, also abusing the profession. Charges to which is added that of forgery for having altered some medical certificates.
The targeted girls, assisted among others by the lawyer Andrea Prudenzano, had been heard last July with the formula of the evidentiary incident. As established by judge Iannelli, they will have to be compensated with provisional amounts between 20 and 30 thousand euros.
(Online Union)