The carabinieri of the Corigliano-Rossano territorial department arrested 2 social and health workers and an educator from a non-profit organization in Rossano , province of Cosenza, on charges of mistreatment of disabled people.
According to the accusations, the three are responsible for repeated acts of harassment and both physical and psychological violence against children with disabilities followed in the day center, creating, the investigators explain, an even more serious climate of "terror and cruelty" because it was created "precisely by those who should have protected people characterized by particular psychic frailty ".
The investigation documented the systematic use of intimidation and violence to maintain control of the structure , "whose traits of violence and cruelty - notes the prosecutor of Castrovillari Alessandro D'Alessio - have generated a real climate of terror between the boys, in order to consolidate their power within the structure, alternating threats, real aggressions, as well as the notorious 'pain therapy', used in particular on one of the victims, not only for educational purposes but to vent - by one of the arrested - his own sadistic instincts ".
The survey, conducted through audio and video footage and observation services, took place from autumn 2021 to April of this year and highlighted the drama of the conditions of particularly fragile people.
(Unioneonline / D)
