Turin, massacre with fists the 6-year-old stepson. The mother: “Say you fell down the stairs”

TURIN. “Now you can do whatever you want, you don’t have to ask me anything anymore, okay, do we agree?” Because I love you and I want you not to feel bad. Whatever you want, you can do it: go to your grandmother, to the sea, to the park, to the swimming pool ».
To read them like this, they would seem the words of a caring parent to the child who is not well, because he is hospitalized. But then, when the conversation continues, things change: «I repeat, you can do whatever you want, but if someone asks you what happened, you have to say that you fell down the stairs: are we in agreement?».
In the hospital room
These words did not escape the investigators in the hospital room where a 6-year-old boy was hospitalized in January due to serious internal injuries. Saved from an almost desperate surgery.
Speaking was the stepfather, a 23-year-old of Moroccan descent, arrested in recent days for attempted murder and mistreatment in the family. The accusations are terrible: the man allegedly hit him with strong blows to the stomach after tying his hands behind his back with a scarf. The child’s fault would have been that he drank a glass of water without permission and threw up in his grandmother’s car.
The investigations of the prosecutor
The prosecutor Enzo Bucarelli has reconstructed a picture made of continuous violence and humiliation by the man against not only his stepson, but also his partner. Yet it was the woman who confirmed in the hospital that her son had fallen down the stairs, that in the previous days he had vomited and that was why he had stayed home from school in the company of his stepfather. But obviously the injuries on her body weren’t compatible with a fortuitous fall. So her case was reported to the prosecutor’s office.
The promises of the stepfather
“I promise you, I will never do that again. Indeed, when you leave the hospital we go to the rides and then I buy you a game for the Play Station. But don’t talk, please »says the stepfather to the child. In another passage, he reminds him that if he speaks “they will take you away, to an abandoned place.” Her mother, present at those speeches, is unable to oppose, victim of abuse and frightened by the consequences of her, if she ever told the truth.
The arrest for the raids in via Roma
The woman changes her attitude when the 23-year-old ends up in prison for taking part in the raids in the shops of Via Roma, in October 2020. She finally tells the investigators of the numerous times she was beaten, even during the period in which she was pregnant with the second. daughter. But she too was punished by punching and kicking the child, whom she could eat and drink only when she said “daddy”. Once, as punishment, the little boy was left in the middle of winter on the balcony, in the cold, with wet hair after a shower.
The confidences of the child
The little one never told the school teachers what was happening at home. The only confidences he had made to his aunt: “I eat a lot of spinach to become strong and to one day be able to hit him with a fist and hurt him, as he did to me”.