12-Year-Old Disfigured in Naples, the Boy: "I'm Repentant", but the GIP Sends Him to Nisida

12-year-old disfigured, despite repentance, a letter of apology, the investigating judge of the Juvenile Court has ordered the precautionary custody in the juvenile prison of Nisida for the 16-year-old from Quartieri Spagnoli.

“I am sorry, I apologize”: The 16-year-old accused of having disfigured his ex-girlfriend answered the magistrates' questions and expressed his regret 12 year old girlfriend the night between July 11th and 12th, in the area of Montesanto, Napoli.

During his stay in the Colli Aminei first reception center where he spent the days following the arrest notified to him by the Carabinieri, the boy, his lawyer says,lawyer Domenico Dello Iacono, He wrote and sent the girl a heartfelt letter of apology in his own hand.

Il gIP of the Juvenile Court of Naples, Paola Brunese, at the end of a long hearing, validated the arrest warrant issued by the Juvenile Prosecutor's Office (deputy prosecutor Emilia Galante Sorrentino) and ordered for him the custody in a juvenile institution.

During the interrogation, the boy, related by kinship to a well-known criminal family in the city centre, underlined, first of all, that not having premeditated the attack at all, taken instead on impulse, due to some photos published on social media which portrayed the girl together with another young man.

The 16-year-old explained that the meeting that night was completely casual: the two crossed paths while they were on a scooter. He asked her to explain those posts, believing that they were still together and that thehad cheated. An argument ensued which culminated in a stab inflicted not with a knife, he explained, but with a cutter which he kept attached to his keys.

The 16 year old gets cArticle 583 quinquies of the penal code was contested, crime punishable by up to 14 years of imprisonment for anyone convicted of causing a disfigurement of a person's appearance through permanent facial injuries.