Enna, disabled, raped in the structure: she is pregnant

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Published on: 08/10/2020 7:29 AM

L ‘The accusation is of sexual violence against a disabled woman, in a period of complete confinement. In the Oasis de Troina, the State Police – Enna Mobile Squad – carried out, last night, the arrest of a suspect of a crime ordered by the Public Ministry of Enna directed by Massimo Palmeri. Prosecutors Stefania Leonte and Orazio Longo, at the end of the interrogation, ordered the arrest of the suspect of the crime of the suspect LA, 39 years old, born in the province of Enna, for the crime of Sexual violence aggravated by having committed the act against a disabled woman. and when it was entrusted to him.

On 09/11/2020, the Mobile Brigade of the Enna Police Headquarters received from the lawyer, appointed by the victim’s family, a formal complaint for being a spouse pregnant, specifying that the girl suffered from very serious pathologies related to a rare genetic disease. The Judicial Police Officers immediately understood the seriousness of the events narrated, immediately activating the so-called red code. The prosecutor in charge of the process coordinated “the timely initiation of the investigation, summoning the parents of the victim to the offices of the Public Ministry.”

Investigators from the State Police and the Public Ministry collected the statements of the next of kin, “immediately drawing up a first investigative hypothesis that was later confirmed by subsequent investigations.” From the story “it appears that the victim of sexual violence had been a guest for some time at the IRCCS Health Structure Association” Oasi Maria SS “in Troina. A few days before the filing of the complaint, the staff of the structure had informed the parents that she was pregnant – say the researchers – Given the particularly serious health conditions it was not possible in any way that she had given her consent, the criminal hypothesis immediately arose that it could be a serious case of violence sexual. “.

The first health checks carried out thanks to the professionalism of the gynecology department of the Enna Hospital and the Palermo Polyclinic allowed “to focus the researchers’ attention on a group of people present in the structure at the time of the presumed period of conception”. The woman, when the state of pregnancy was verified, had passed the 25th week of gestation and, therefore, some health investigations could not be carried out so as not to put the life of the woman and the fetus at risk. The investigators were left with nothing more than to act with the execution of all the persons informed about the facts or possible witnesses. In the Mobile Brigade of the Enna Police Headquarters, headed by Assistant Deputy Commissioner Antonino Ciavola, under the continuous and constant investigative coordination of the Public Ministry, the senior management of the health establishment was summoned and later all the employees of the different services, from doctors to operators. social health.

Research shows that “no one at the health center was aware of the state of pregnancy, assuming that the weight gain of the girl could depend on the fact that during the confinement the patients were allowed to eat more or that the medications were sometimes administered they were due to an irregularity in the cycle. ” From the first people the Flying Squad heard, “only one fact emerged that further aggravated the matter, namely that no one had unauthorized access to the structure and that other disabled guests could not have committed the crime.”

These data allowed the investigations to focus even more on the people who worked there, “so much so that they began to proceed with the taking of a salivary sample for the extraction of the genetic profile (DNA) by the operators of the Scientific Police. “. After listening to dozens of people and taking several samples of biological liquid for DNA extraction, yesterday morning the detainee, a health social worker employed by the Troina facility for two years, was summoned. From the first questions asked, the researchers understood his state of discomfort and his particular emotionality when he told what he knew.

“The suspect was particularly confused when recounting what happened in recent months and, in particular, the period in which the Troina facility was declared a red zone due to the outbreak that developed inside with dozens of COVID-19 positives. Investigators who suspected that the man was hiding something and that he was not entirely sincere continued to pursue the suspect concentrating their memory efforts in April, especially on the presumed date of conception. ”The suspect reported that at the end of March he requested the health management to be able to access the facility to be able to provide help to their colleagues in difficulty and to those hospitalized since the red zone had been declared inaccessible or discharged from the Oasis. A few days later, due to the shortage of personnel , he was authorized access to offer his activity as a social and health worker.

In the first days of April, precisely in the period of maximum health emergency that the Troina facility was facing, the suspect was assigned to the department where all the subjects who tested positive for COVID-19 had been transferred. The suspect, during one of the many consecutive nights that he spent in the facility, “taking advantage of the temporary absence of the professional nurse, without even addressing the positivity of COVID-19, reached the victim he had known for some time and consumed sexual relations depriving himself of any antiviral protection system, suit and mask “. Taking into account what the social worker finally confessed to the men of the Flying Brigade, the prosecutors were immediately informed that they approached the police at the Enna Police Headquarters to question the confessed criminal. At the end of the interrogation, the Public Ministry of Enna ordered the arrest of the suspect of a crime, an act carried out immediately by the State Police that led the detainee to jail at the disposal of the Judicial Authority. Enna’s Public Ministry will continue investigative activities to clarify any additional aspect of the matter and evaluate any responsibility in relation to the events that occurred.