Three people, an 18-year-old and two minors, were arrested by the Carabinieri of the Operational and Radiomobile Unit of the Sulmona Company for the violence against a 12-year-old girl, filmed and then published on WhatsApp groups .
The suspects will face charges of aggravated gang rape, aggravated sexual assault, sexual acts with minors under 14, production of child pornography, possession of child pornography, and stalking.
Those arrested were tracked down in their homes and taken to the Sulmona prison and the juvenile prison in Casal del Marmo, Rome.
The measures were ordered by the preliminary investigation judges of the L'Aquila Court and the Juvenile Court of the capital city based on the serious evidence of guilt gathered by the Carabinieri.
The investigation began at the end of August, when the victim found the courage to call the "114-Childhood Emergency" number and report that she had been forced to suffer sexual abuse, including gang-related abuse, under repeated death threats, and to share, via social networks, a sexually explicit video of herself , made without her knowledge by one of the suspects.
Initially, an 18-year-old and a 14-year-old were placed under investigation, and later a 17-year-old was added, believed to be the actual author of one of the videos, which was also posted on a WhatsApp group.
(Unioneonline)
