“But what sexual violence! I have 8 daughters and I don't even like blondes,” is how DS, 23, defended himself against the crime that the judges of the Rome court accused him of. He allegedly groped a girl on the tram that was passing through Via Tiburtina. However, the justification did not convince the magistrates, who therefore validated the arrest for the violence against the young woman. They had also proposed house arrest, but his parents were unable to accommodate him because the house was unusable.
The case
The facts, he said Republicdates back to September 3. The man approached the girl during the tram ride. He asked her for a kiss, she refused. The man reacted: “With a sudden movement, he blocked the woman, preventing her from moving away and also groping her private parts,” the prosecutor explained during the hearing. The grip only loosened following a distraction of the attacker: the cigarette he had in his mouth fell. Then the girl seized the opportunity and fled, reached the door of the first local police station and, in tears, told everything. Shortly after, DS was arrested by the Prenestino officers.
The Suspect's Story
“I grew up in the Bronx, on Via Guido Calcagni, in Torrevecchia. Dad is an ex-convict who is now a construction manager. They shot me when I was little,” after all DS spent most of his 23 years in communities and family homes. He went to Parma, Palermo and then back to Rome: “I spent 8 years like that,” he said. But he still reiterated his defensive position: “I'm a teetotaler, not a
Pippo, I don't smoke bowl (crack), I smoke joints, I'll tell you the truth. One thing is for sure: I don't do these things, ask around who I am. Everywhere in Rome, they know it.” And then: “I like brunettes, not blondes.” The judges, however, challenged his precedents which “attest to a repetition of delinquent acts.” The previous week, he was in court for resisting a public official. He will have to remain in prison pending a psychiatric evaluation that could place him in a retirement home.
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