Verona, “the disco, then the abuses”: young man compensated after 5 years
I drank two gin lemons, then I don’t remember anything until I woke up, I noticed the violence there …. A few drinks in the discotheque of Cerea, in the Veronese area, where they had just met while dancing, then a 22-year-old from Verona had two young men to take her home, his peers. But they, according to her accusation, according to her took advantage of it to rape her in turn. First one, then the other, on the night of September 24, 2017 wanting to have sex with that girl he just met in the club by abusing his state of intoxication. An accusation that the directly concerned had always rejected: in the first instance they were acquitted because the fact does not exist, but now the judges of the third section of the Court of Appeal of Venice have sentenced them to pay damages to the victim.
The payment
As a provisional, the president Elisa Mariani has in fact ordered the payment of the sum of 20 thousand euros, remitting the parties to the civil judge for their liquidation. With this device, the second degree judges therefore accepted the appeal presented by the plaintiff lawyers Paolo Mastropasqua and Anna Maria Bigon, according to which the defendants despite being fully aware of the psycho-physical inferiority conditions of the 22-year-old and completely regardless of her state, they had more sexual relations with the latter, which were the cause of the serious psychological consequences suffered by the civil party. Based on these reasons, in their appeal, the victim’s lawyers therefore asked for the defendants to be sentenced to pay compensation for all sufferedequity and non-equity, in the total amount of € 549,162.
Research
A claim greater than half a million euros which, in the light of the verdict just decreed on appeal, the lawyers of the civil party can now renew in civil proceedings. No variation, however, from the point of view strictly for the two young defendants, both defended by the lawyer Guido Beghini: after the acquittal of the first degree, in fact, the Scala Prosecutor did not present any appeal, despite the fact that in Verona the prosecutor had requested a sentence of 5 years for each of the accused. That evening, at the disco, the victim had too much elbow: he had felt bad, he had begun to raise his stomach. The two defendants then offer to give her a lift by car. Once in a parking lot in Dossobuono, however, according to the prosecution can forced to sexual acts the 22 year old: Nothing is true and I have never taken advantage of a woman – declared one of the two accused during the trial – I myself went to the carabinieri to explain what had happened. The other young man also defends himself firmly: If I had had the slightest doubt that she was not conscious and aware of what she was, I would not have touched her even with a finger. I have great respect for women, my parents taught me that. This story shocked me, the world collapsed on me. Instead the victim told the opposite, confessing that he needed psychological support to recover from the events of that night: now, 5 years after her alleged abuse, ask for compensation.
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May 28, 2022 (change May 28, 2022 | 18:14)
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