Seven years and eight months of imprisonment and a ban on approaching places frequented by minors.
This is the sentence that was issued by the preliminary hearing judge of the Santa Maria Capua Vetere court, Ivana Salvatore, against Angelo M., a 50-year-old owner of a riding school in the Caserta area accused of sexually abusing minor pupils between the ages of 10 and 14.
In addition to the seven years and eight months of imprisonment, the additional penalties include a ban on working with minors and a ban on approaching places frequented by minors. The prosecutor, at the hearing held on September 23, had requested an eleven-year sentence. The trial was conducted using the expedited procedure.
During the investigation phase, a unique event was also held, the evidentiary hearing, during which the accused was confronted by the five victims (both male and female), who confirmed that they had been molested and abused by the 50-year-old.
Further evidence against the riding stable owner, arrested for these incidents by the Carabinieri in December 2020, was found thanks to the analysis of the victims' and instructor's phones. The investigation began following complaints from several parents, whose children had reported the instructor's morbid attentions to them and the sexually explicit comments made by the 50-year-old.
The violence allegedly took place in secluded areas of the riding school. The former students have joined the trial as civil parties (they are defended by lawyers Mariano Omarto, Mauro Iodice and Marianna Febbraio).
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A night of fear turned into a decisive intervention by the Carabinieri in Santa Maria Capua Vetere, where a 59-year-old woman was rescued after yet another episode of violence linked to a long series of stalking incidents. The alarm was raised following a report to the Operations Center, which brought patrols from the Mobile Radio Unit to the scene, responding in the middle of the night to the city center.
The officers found the woman in a clear state of shock, having just been attacked. After securing and reassuring her, they called for emergency medical personnel, simultaneously launching initial investigations to reconstruct what happened. From the statements collected and the evidence gathered on site, a pattern of alleged harassment emerged, consisting of threats, stalking, and physical and verbal assaults, which had reportedly been ongoing since the summer of 2024.
Not a punitive raid against inmates, but an intervention deemed essential to restore order at a time of high tension in Italian prisons, marked by riots related to the Covid lockdown. This is the defense line put forward in court by Antonio Fullone, former prison administrator in Campania, a defendant in the maxi-trial into the violence that occurred on April 6, 2020, in the Santa Maria Capua Vetere prison.
Before the panel of judges, Fullone explained that the search of the Nile unit, where approximately 300 inmates were subjected to checks that later degenerated into beatings and abuse, was intended to restore the facility's security. The former director is facing charges of unlawful searches, misdirection, forgery, and disclosure of official secrets.
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