Siena, children tied up with stretching bands – Chronicle
Siena, February 22, 2022 – “Use bands to tie under the armpits. We will not be able to understand what was talked about in the interceptions. Then when we entered the home nursery we found one of a fuchsia color. It was – explains a carabiniere from the labor inspectorate – an elastic band for stretching “. Words that leave their mark, those of the investigator. A punch in the stomach. Because in that structure, where I little ones be safe and safe instead have been mistreated, they are still very young children. The oldest could have been at most 30 months, the youngest only six. Fragile and in need of pampering but in the kindergarten in via Pisacanebuilt inside the owner’s home (he has already bargained for 2 years and 5 months for mistreatment and forgery) they had actually found screams, offenses, tugs.
Yes, according to the accusation made by the prosecutor Silvia Benetti who has followed the story from the beginning, tied with elastic bands in cots or left in dark environments to force them to fall asleep.
A 34-year-old Sienese educator, defended by a lawyer, ended up on trial because she should not denounce the owner’s misconduct Massimo Rossi. The woman had asked to be heard in the preliminary hearing but her reasons had not convinced the gup Ilaria Cornetti. Hence the indictment. It was necessary to listen to the witnesses and to reconstruct in the courtroom had been filmed by the hidden camera in the apartment for if the collaborator was also responsible for the mistreatment of the children.
So many parents who are formed part through civil, among others, lawyers Beniamino Schiavone, Roberto Martini and Gabriele Cresti. The investigation was triggered by the intuition of an operator who went to the labor inspectorate. A mother, owner of a business she used, had confessed “a strong will, with the commercial”.
Shown is “a video of a baby crawling and being taken with force. As a judicial police officer he upset me. ‘ “We have it, it will be produced”, prosecutor Benetti immediately puts his hands on. Who calls on the witness stand the carabiniere to whom the colleague had later reported that brief conversation. “The parents were summoned, the complaint was filed,” explains the man. Which illustrates the difficulties in setting up audio equipment and cameras in the nursery to film what was going on. Eventually they had a message in a box of the roller shutter. “The educator was present, even during the verbal offenses”, says the investigator who speaks of an escalation of episodes that had led them to intervene in February 2019. “I heard crying from the balcony, we saw a stroller out there”, he adds starting a deposition that will go on until almost 19.30. The next hearing is for other operators of the judicial police and the parents of the children.