He slapped and belted him and accompanied the beatings with insults and death threats. Every day and for years. All in the silence and complicity of the closest family members who knew but never reported it. The protagonist of the violence suffered is a disabled eleven-year-old child who lives in the hinterland of Sassari and who, instead of being saved from his father’s fury by those closest to him and who could see him, was taken from the house of horrors by the State Police.
The man was arrested in deferred flagrante delicto, an institution that came into force at the end of last year as part of the new procedures for protecting the Red Code. It was the environmental wiretaps that framed him: cameras and microphones dramatically documented the daily and horrifying violence to which the little autistic boy was apparently subjected for a long time and very often in front of other people in his family.
The use of force by the father occurred through slaps but also belts on the child’s body, in addition to repeated threats to kill him and insults of all kinds. The violence suffered by the minor at home was reported by people outside the family unit who immediately triggered investigations coordinated by the Prosecutor’s Office. The violence occurred, as far as we know, only within the home and environmental interceptions were necessary to document it. The arrested person, as ordered by the Judicial Authority, was transferred to the Bancali prison to await the validation hearing, while the child, upon order of the Juvenile Court of Sassari, was placed in a specialized protected facility.
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