Overview
- Carabinieri acting on a missing-person alert from the mother entered the Santa Maria di Pisa apartment through a window with fire brigade support and found the woman in shock and bruised.
- The partner was arrested in flagrante, exercised the right to remain silent before the investigating judge, and pre-trial detention was validated by GIP Sergio De Luca.
- Prosecutors have lodged accusations including kidnapping, torture, personal injuries, maltreatment and resisting a public official, with reports also citing aggravated sexual violence.
- The woman reported beatings, burns and cigarette burns, threats of acid disfigurement, forced ingestion of bleach, hair cut with a razor, psychotropic drugs and sexual assaults, with food allegedly thrown on the floor and spat on.
- Authorities say the relationship had deteriorated for about three months; the survivor was hospitalized and then entrusted to a gender-violence support center as investigations continue.