Milan, sentence reduced to the rapist. The judges: “The conduct of the victim is too casual”

“Exasperated by the too casual behavior of the woman. “It is for this reason that the milan court of appeal lowered the sentence to 4 years and 4 months for a 63-year-old Romanian, accused of kidnapping his partner in their caravan for one night and beating her and broken until sunrise. As the Corriere della Sera, the court of Monza in an abbreviated rite had imposed a sentence of 5 years, then the judges of Milan reviewed it on the basis of “degraded family context“Where the couple lived. In her opinion, moreover, “the. woman relationships with other men “would have created a situation considered” indicative of a low intensity of malice“.

The episode dates back to midnight on June 8, 2019, when in Vimercate (in the province of Monza) the 63-year-old began to insult the 43-year-old compatriot, accusing her of having betrayed him “with men she met in Facebook“Then, the newspaper of via Solferino reports, the death threat, points out a facial knife, throws the phone on the ground, hits her with a wooden coffee table and starts beat her up in the face. Ignoring her screams, he slaps her with his open hand, hits her with more punches on the chin and back “so hard she is out of breath”, and then throws her on the bed. She begs him not to rape her, but he attacks her and forces her to perform sexual acts.

The nightmare ends only at 7 in the morning, when the couple’s daughter alerts the carabinieri and has the man arrested. The judges of the 1st Court of Appeal of Milan – the rapporteur Francesca Vitale with the president Marco Maria Maiga and her colleague Elena Minici – confirm the charge for kidnapping and other crimes, but still decide to accept the appeal presented by the defense “limited” to ” grievance for the excess of sanctioning treatment“. Why? They believe that they must take into account the” family and social context “,” characterized by anomaly like the woman’s relationships with other men, almost favored by the accused or in any case not hindered, “to the point that the 43-year-old also remains”pregnant from another issue. “In addition, from the defensive acts on the path traveled by the accused in prison,” emerges “his character as a” meek “man,” perhaps exasperated by the too carefree behavior of his partner, whom he had passively suffered until that moment. “The court emphasizes that this situation certainly” does not mitigate responsibility “, but” is nevertheless an indication of a lesser intensity of fraud, and of the degraded state in which the couple lived. “