The court of Santa Maria Capua Vetere sentenced 60-year-old Assistant Chief of the State Police Andrea Laracca to six years in prison for sexual violence, with a lifelong ban from holding public office; he was instead acquitted of the crime of aggravated extortion.
The officer was accused of having sexually harassed in 2018, while he was on duty at the Cellole Highway Police detachment, two female motorists stopped for road checks on two separate occasions in the months of March and May in Mondragone and Castel Volturno.
In both incidents, the two women were in the car with their minor children, and theagent he did not hesitate to commit the abuse in front of the children, after having tried to arrange a hot date with the two motorists.
The victims reported the facts to the police, and shortly after, in June 2018, Laracca was placed under house arrest following investigations by the Caserta Flying Squad; the officer was then suspended from duty.
The Public Prosecutor's Office of Santa Maria Capua Vetere (substitute Gerardina Cozzolino) had requested nine years in prison for Laracca, but the judging panel (president Sergio Enea) granted the mitigating circumstance of lesser gravity for the crime of sexual violence, deeming the six-year sentence adequate, and acquitting the policeman of the crime of extortion because the fact did not exist.
Article published on 25 October 2022 - 21:45
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