He slapped and belted him and accompanied the beatings with insults and death threats. Every day and for years. All this in the silence and complicity of the closest family members who knew but never reported it. The protagonist of the violence suffered is an eleven-year-old disabled boy who lives in the hinterland of Sassari and who, instead of being saved from his father's fury by those closest to him and who saw him, was snatched from the house of horrors by the State Police.
The man was arrested in flagrante deferred, an institution that came into force at the end of last year as part of the new procedures for the protection of the Red Code. He was framed by environmental interceptions: cameras and microphones dramatically documented the daily and gruesome violence to which the child, autistic, had been subjected, apparently, for a long time and very often in front of other people in his family.
The use of force by the father took place through slaps but also straps on the child's body, in addition to repeated threats to kill him and insults of all kinds. The violence suffered by the minor at home was reported by people outside the family unit who immediately triggered the investigations coordinated by the Public Prosecutor's Office. The violence took place, as far as we know, only within the walls of the home and environmental interceptions were necessary to document it. The arrested person, as ordered by the Judicial Authority, was transferred to the Bancali prison pending the validation hearing, while the child, on the orders of the Juvenile Court of Sassari, was placed in a specialized protected facility.
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