A 15-year-old was raped by her classmates. It happens in Reggio Emilia, where a contemporary of the victim was arrested by the carabinieri on charges of sexual violence. Two other children are under investigation, according to the Prosecutor's Office they too would have had non-consensual relations with the victim.
The judge of the juvenile court of Bologna, after having validated the arrest of the boy with a clean record, accepted the request for house arrest made by the defense lawyer Giacomo Fornaciari.
The facts date back to Friday morning: following a strike at school, five classmates - three boys and two girls - decide to buy alcoholic drinks and go to the apartment of the young man's parents, who was then arrested to have a party.
One of the two girls, who will be questioned in the next few hours, returns home at lunchtime, the other - drunk - is left alone with the three teenagers, who at that point abused her.
The 15-year-old in shock called her sister around 15 to give the alarm to the carabinieri and report the violence suffered.
One of the three boys has yet to be identified and heard by the investigators. Another, one of the suspects, instead made spontaneous statements in the barracks, admitting that he had had a relationship with the girl. While the arrested person claims "that the report was consenting".
Alessandra Serra, prosecutor of the Prosecutor's Office for Minors, does not believe it, according to which sexual violence is aggravated "by the conditions of mental and physical inferiority, having heavily abused alcoholic substances such as wine and peach vodka, in such quantities as to compromise the ability to express valid consent ", reads the request for a precautionary measure.
The toxicological tests to which the girl was subjected eight hours after the events confirmed "a percentage of ethanol present in the plasma equal to 96 mg / dl, a considerable state of alcoholic intoxication".
Some chats on the cell phones of the suspects are also being examined by investigators. The 15-year-old was also arrested because when the carabinieri arrived in the apartment he ran away leaving the door open: hence the danger of escape and the provision of the investigating judge.
