There are ten witnesses who will have to be heard again in the second degree trial on the abuse that occurred in the retirement home on Via Aosta in Nuoro from 2015 to 2016.
The Court of Appeal of Sassari decided this by reopening the investigation in the second-degree trial against Rosanna Serra and Nikaj Genci (defended by lawyers Francesco Lai and Annamaria Musio). The two had been acquitted by the single judge of the Court of Nuoro. Serra and Genci – at the time of the facts respectively director and social health worker of the retirement home in via Aosta – were accused of aggravated mistreatment of the elderly guests.
The Nuoro Public Prosecutor's Office is appealing the first-degree acquittal that came almost three years ago. The investigation was born from a video taken from the cameras that the police had placed in the facility. Serra was arrested in May 2016 together with two other health care workers, already sentenced by the Nuoro court with the abbreviated trial to 3 years and 4 months and 4 years.
According to the prosecution, the woman was guilty of having done nothing to prevent the abuse, Nikaj of having beaten a guest. Defense lawyers Francesco Lai and Anna Maria Musio have always maintained the unreliability of the statements made by some social health workers and the lack of clarity of the images. Now it will be the Court of Appeal of Sassari to reevaluate the evidence by hearing ten witnesses again.
