A nightmare and a terrible suspicion that lasted over 12 years and were swept away by the judges of the Court of Appeal of Cagliari who overturned the first instance sentence and acquitted a janitor of the elementary school in via Meilogu in Cagliari "because the fact does not exist". accusation of pedophilia.
In December 2010 he was attacked and sent to hospital by the father of a 5-year-old girl who had revealed to her parent alleged abuse by the school assistant, 45 years old at the time. The intervention of the police had rescued the man from the fury of the father of the little girl and of others present.
Many had defended the janitor , considered by all to be a person "incapable" of hurting a fly, but the sentence to 7 and a half years in prison had arrived in the first instance. Today the Court of Appeal of Cagliari, accepting the defender's appeal, overturned the sentence and dropped all charges.