Abuse perpetrated for months by a gang of very young people on two girls aged 10 and 12, rapes that were also filmed with cell phones, threatening the victims with images if they rebelled.
Under the strictest secrecy, investigators are revealing new details about the Caivano horrors, an investigation targeting at least fifteen young people, almost all minors, involved in various ways in the violence against the two cousins.
Among them, it seems, are at least a couple of the sons of the Parco Verde bosses, the drug kingpins in what is considered the largest drug dealing hub in Europe.
Nothing, not even the arrest of the only adult under investigation, has been confirmed by the two prosecutors currently working, the Naples juvenile court and the Naples North prosecutor's office; the former has even opened a file on the leak.
However, there is talk of about ten cell phones seized from the suspects immediately after the rapes were reported to the police by the relatives of the two victims: videos and other evidence are being sought to reconstruct what happened.
Those very images, through various chats, apparently ended up on the phone of the brother of one of the victims, leading the parents to the police. The theory is that, at least starting in January, the two cousins fell prey to a group of violent men (including a sixteen-year-old who claimed to be the 10-year-old's boyfriend) who allegedly repeatedly gang-raped them in the most isolated and degraded areas of Parco Verde.
Like the Delphinia sports centre, abandoned among rats and dirt, a symbol of the serious discomfort of a
A neighborhood where even spaces intended for social gatherings have been overrun by neglect. "I can't bear the thought of having to continue living in this place anymore. It's hell," the mother of one of the victims vented. "We trusted the institutions, but at Parco Verde, politics has always been absent."
To those who abused her daughter, she would say: "Look in the mirror and see how disgusting and cowardly you are." The woman denies the accusations of "gross neglect"—made by social workers and endorsed by the juvenile court—that led to her daughter and her cousin being placed in a protected community, removing them from their families.
"We are not to blame. In this human and social degradation, we have always done everything possible for my daughter's good. These are accusations we do not deserve. I must leave, for my daughter's good and for our family."
At Parco Verde today, the atmosphere is "of death and desolation," parish priest Maurizio Patriciello admits disconsolately. The few passersby are shouting at reporters; the tension is palpable.
Don Maurizio, who for years has denounced the Camorra's misdeeds and the culpable failures of the institutions, invites Prime Minister Meloni to visit Caivano to reflect on the future of the children of this land. "No one has a magic wand," he concludes, "but the key to achieving something is 'together.'"
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