A judge absolved a young Italian man of rape after finding that the woman’s decision to leave her bathroom door open was a “appeal to daring” and “motivated the male to approach.”
According to a decision made last Friday at Turin’s appeals court, the “victim” was “high after an excessive use of alcohol” when she and a male entered a pub’s restrooms together in the city center in May 2019.
The woman’s jeans also had a broken zip, but because it was “ancient and worn out,” it was disregarded as evidence that the man had undressed her.
Politicians have strongly denounced the appeal sentence, which overturned a two-year term for rape.
The appeal sentence, which overturned a two-year rape conviction, has now received widespread ire from politicians and women’s organizations.
The sentence, according to League MP Laura Ravetto, was “spin-chilling.”
The girl, who made it apparent that she did not consent to having sex, allegedly “encouraged the male to dare” by leaving the bathroom door open and being inebriated. It is abnormal.
The verdict, according to politician Maria Edera Spadoni of the Five Star Movement political party, “takes the struggle against gender violence back by light years.”
She argued that magistrates need to be “retrained” on the subject.
Senator Valeria Valente of the Democratic Party declared: “This punishment is especially serious. I trust that the Supreme Court of Cassation will reverse it.
Misogyny in Italian courts has previously been charged. Due to the judges’ determination that their victim was “too manly” and unattractive, two men were exonerated of rape in 2019.
The two 22-year-old men were initially found not guilty in 2017, but it wasn’t until this week, after the court of appeal mandated a new trial, that the grounds for their decision were made public.
The victim was deemed unattractive by the accused, according to the judges, and one of them saved her phone number under the name “Viking,” a reference to her manly build.
On Monday, hundreds of people gathered outside the courthouse in Ancona, central Italy, to protest the ruling.
‘For shame!’ shouted about 200 demonstrators, accusing the justice system of misogyny and a ‘witch hunt.’
The guys, who are both Peruvians, were initially found guilty of raping a Peruvian lady in 2015 in 2016. However, the Ancona appeals court overturned the conviction because it found the woman’s account to be unreliable.
Another judge also caused controversy in 2017 when he exonerated a man of raping a woman on a hospital bed because she didn’t scream.
The judge in Turin, northern Italy, questioned why the victim did not yell for aid, and the suspected attacker, 46, was allowed to leave court free.
however she claimed
‘enough!’ to the former colleague accused of raping her, the court ruled that this constituted too weak a reaction to prove that she was sexually attacked.