He used his son as a target – both fixed and mobile – for crossbow shooting .
The disconcerting story of ill-treatment comes from Sabaudia (Latina) and emerges after the arrest of four people for drug dealing.
The head of the association, 39 years old, is accused by the prosecutor of ill-treatment of his nine-year-old son .
A very dangerous game, during which the minor was also hit a few times. The child was repeatedly beaten by his father with a leather belt and insulted with the epithet of "infamous" because he preferred the mother to the father (the parents are separated).
The ex-partner of the 39-year-old and the child are assisted by an anti-violence association. The child's mother reported the abuse of the child, the first of three siblings. The minor, listened to in protected mode, confirmed.
His father, he said, put him against a wall several times and then shot arrows . The only "care", that of aiming at the legs and belly. The little one sometimes stood still, terrified, sometimes he moved and the father waited for him to move to shoot the arrow. On several occasions he was hit, in great pain, crying and screaming.
In the story given to the investigators, the child also explained that he had seen "rat poison" several times at his father's house. It was actually cocaine, which caused the man to go to jail last week .
(Unioneonline/L)
