perpetual sentence and interdiction – Corriere di Siena
He sexually harassed a young girl by groping her during an afternoon music class: a 63-year-old teacher has been condemned yesterday from court of Siena to a sentence of 2 years and 6 months on charges of sexual violence. To issue the verdict, late yesterday morning, the college chaired by judge Simona Spina, who also ordered the perpetual ban from the public offices of the professor, as well as the payment of a provisional for damages of 5 thousand euros (the quantum will be defined in a separate civil office with an autonomous action) and the reimbursement of legal costs.
The story takes hold in 2020 in the southern area of the province of Siena, the protagonist is a girl in her early twenties, a worker who, passionate about music and already devoted to the practice of instruments, decided to take afternoon lessons at a public facility. After a first regular lesson, during the second, the crime occurs because the teacher, a state employee, as reported, reaches out and touches the girl, who immediately interrupts the course and runs to report what happened to the competent authorities. To nail the accused a text message sent to the same victim of harassment, where she assured that this would have happened “not happened anymore”. The judicial process was very quick – as often happens for cases involving the pink code – with the teacher being investigated and sent for trial, and the trial that began at the end of 2021. Two months of investigation were enough to get to the discussion between the parties, with the prosecutor Niccolò Ludovici (in place of the holder of the file Daniele Rosa) who asked for a 3-year sentence. After leaving the council chamber, the judge issued the sentence, which could now cost the professor the job, given the perpetual ban.
The proceedings may also have some aftermath, since the judge has decided to pass the positions of other senior school managers of the teacher, profiling the omission of official documents, since the latter would be a recidivist for having negotiated a sentence in the past for another case of sexual harassment. Furthermore, the positions of witnesses two in order to possible perjury will also be noted, as during the investigation this accumulated money denied some statements made to information during the investigations, conducted by the State Police. “I am satisfied with the outcome of the trial – commented the lawyer Angelo Greco of the Siena bar, defender of the girl together with his colleague Caruso of the Naples bar – even if it will certainly be done without considering the seriousness of the affair. My client had entrusted the teacher to refine the musical technique, suffering instead of harassment “.