Three former teachers convicted of ill-treatment will now have to compensate the Municipality for the damage to their image. The Civil Court of Ravenna sentenced the three women, at the time of the facts serving in a kindergarten in Conselice, to pay the municipal administration a compensation of 30 thousand euros, by way of non-pecuniary damage (damage to image) and another 40 thousand euro, by way of pecuniary damage. The facts date back to the period 2006-2010 and in 2014 two of the former teachers were sentenced to 3 years and 2 months and 1 year and 8 months while the third had negotiated a sentence of 1 year and 8 months.
According to the civil judge, “the ill-treatment committed against minors must be considered proven” and “damage to the image of the municipal body is ascertained”, which was brought to court through its lawyer, the lawyer Valerio Tallini. Damage to image “deriving from the disclosure of the news at national and local level, from the gravity of the facts perpetrated by the condemned in connection with their role as child educators operating in structures of the Municipality and from the duration of the injury that continued from the year of the investigation , in 2010, until the final sentences in 2019 ».
“The widespread dissemination of the opening of the criminal proceedings, the carrying out of the related trial and the issuance of the sentences of conviction and plea bargaining – reads the sentence – have ex se led public opinion to associate the municipal public body with the conduct crimes carried out “by the former teachers” given their destination as a body responsible for the organization and management of the public childcare service of the Municipality. The damage to the image and reputation of the Municipality of Conselice must therefore be considered “, concludes the civil judge of Ravenna.