An indictment for alleged sexual assault on a minor. It happened yesterday, in court in Sassari , with the decision of the preliminary hearing judge Gian Paolo Piana who ordered the trial of a 55-year-old from Northern Italy who allegedly took advantage of a minor from Alghero from the age of 9, from 2016 until 2021.
According to the indictment, the man, a family friend of the little girl's parents, was responsible for several sexual abuses both in a house in the Catalan city and in his home in the north. In 2021, the reasons for the minor's distress were discovered by the father and mother, unaware of the episodes until then, who filed a complaint.
An initial proceeding reaches the judge for preliminary investigations Sergio De Luca, the prosecutor was Ermanno Cattaneo, and the accused, defended by the lawyers Giuseppe Cormaio and Marco Conti, initially chooses the abbreviated case.
The preliminary hearing judge sends the file back to the Prosecutor's Office to reformulate the charge, because it does not coincide with the evidentiary findings. In the new procedure, the 55-year-old refuses the abbreviated procedure this time and will go to trial next year. The minor joined the civil action with the lawyer Elisabetta Sotgia.
