Unusual! A judge released two men accused of rape because the victim had a male appearance

March 12, 2019

The perpetrators were sentenced to 5 and 3 years imprisonment, but were acquitted on appeal. The sentence will be revised.

Italy – Events occurred in 2015 and the victim and the two accused are Peruvian nationals. Although the trial court sentenced the two accused, one of them as an accomplice, the court of appeals of Ancona, composed of three judges in 2017, he acquitted them by adopting the arguments of the alleged aggressors.

The justification was that the girl looked very masculine, was ugly and did not like at allto the point that the alleged perpetrator of the violation had recorded in his phone under the name "Viking".

The controversial sentence was quashed in cbadation and the appeal procedure is to be held again in the city of Perugia.

The case provoked the indignation of feminist collectives, They organized a demonstration outside the headquarters of the court of appeal. "Tremble, shake, witches are back," protesters shouted.

The protest was organized by the feminist Rebels Network and other human rights organizations who criticize the language used in the reasons for the sentence that acquitted the convicts.

After suffering gender-related violence, her husband was killed by 185 wounds

"These words are a new affront to the victim, they have nothing to do with the search for the truth," said Luisa Rizzitelli of Rebels Network.

For the Attorney General of Ancona, Sergio Sottani, who challenged the sentence, it must be avoided that "the words used may constitute another form of violence against women". In this case, the use of the word masculine.

And he rejected the fact that "the lack of badual attraction of the alleged rapist by the victim could represent an element of support for the lack of responsibility".

As a result, the victim's lawyer, Cinzia Molinaro, said in a statement to the Guardian that the accused had thrown substances into the girl's glbad. In addition, doctors found that the victim's blood had high levels of benzodiazepines and The injuries resulted from a violation.