Abuse of a 15 year old, the prosecutor's office against acquittal

The Turin juvenile prosecutor's office is appealing against the acquittal of the two defendants, who were accused of inflicting a series of abuses on a 15-year-old boy with intellectual limitations during a Halloween party last year.

The newspaper La Stampa reports this, explaining that the prosecutor's office for minors, with prosecutors Vitina Pinto and Virginia Pecoriello, is asking the Court of Appeal to overturn the acquittal sentence of the two defendants - aged 14 and 15 - accused of having harassed a peer with intellectual and mental deficits for over twelve hours, between 31 October and 1 November 2025. Both were acquitted last summer. A third person, a young girl, had instead admitted and asked to be tested.

According to the judges of first instance, it would have been an evening of heavy pranks "without criminally relevant coercion" writes La Stampa. In the appeal, the prosecutors retrace every action suffered by the victim in the "party" house.

Private violence, kidnapping and group sexual violence are the crimes whose existence the prosecutor reiterates. The assumption of the entire accusatory reasoning is that for something to be "shared" "reciprocity" is needed, therefore "equivalence": everyone must be on the same level, able to understand what they are doing, full consent is needed. But this form of authentic consent was missing, according to the prosecutor's office.