The first conviction was handed down against the only minor in the group accused of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old girl on July 7 in Palermo, near an abandoned construction site in the Foro Italico. The public prosecutor had requested a sentence of 8 years during the abbreviated trial but the judge of the preliminary hearings handed down a longer sentence: 8 years and 8 months in prison. The minor was arrested in August and, after a short period of community detention, he was transferred again to Malaspina Prison due to the content of some of his messages which almost seemed to claim responsibility for the incident. Six other people are also accused of violence, are in prison and have requested to be tried in an abbreviated trial, which will begin in April. The defense denies that there was violence and speaks of a consensual relationship, while the 19-year-old young woman has always reiterated that she had been attacked and that she had repeatedly asked her tormentors to Stop. “We certainly cannot settle for a conviction against a minor accused of hateful violence against a 19-year-old girl,” lawyer Carla Garofalo, who is assisting the 19-year-old girl, told ANSA. request from the prosecution itself, nevertheless serves to reestablish the truth after all the false news and slander against the victim of this gang rape that someone tried to pass off as a consensual relationship.
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