“The murder of Sorrentino represented a ferocious retaliation against a woman who, with her courage, had allowed a shameful sequence of violence against defenseless children to be revealed and those responsible to be brought to justice.”
This was underlined by the prosecutor of Torre Annunziata Nunzio Fragliasso in a note issued after the life sentence of Francesco Tamarisco, believed to be the instigator of the murder of the “courageous mother” Matilde Sorrentino.
Tamarisco is believed to be the head of a criminal organization of the same name that deals with drug trafficking in Torre Annunziata. There were 43 hearings in the trial, which began on February 2, 2019. Eleven collaborators of justice were heard by the judges. The person who materially carried out the murder of Matilde Sorrentino was Alfredo Gallo, also definitively sentenced to life imprisonment, on May 24, 2005.
The testimony of the victim's son, who recognized him after seeing him flee after the ambush, was crucial. The investigation and the trial shed light on one of the most squalid events that took place in Torre Annunziata and on a pedophile organization that perpetrated its atrocities until April 1996. Atrocities committed against children who were between 6 and 7 years old at the time, raped, photographed and filmed, inside private homes and even in an elementary school.
The children were threatened, with syringes and knives, as well as tied up and beaten. The images, finally, were used to feed a child pornography ring. Matilde Sorrentino was one of the three mothers who denounced those responsible for this horrifying child pornography ring.
Article published on 21 December 2021 - 22:07
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