The wedding canceled in Pakistan after her fiancé had reconsidered had been considered a shame for the family of a 15-year-old brought to Italy by her father and locked up at home for two years without the possibility of going out, of going to school, of a social life, among insults, harassment and beatings. It is the ordeal suffered by a girl who only in 2019, after two years, as a nightmare, was able to move away from her home, in a village in the Senigalliese area (Ancona), to report everything to the carabinieri and trigger the investigation. At the end of the trial in Ancona, the young woman’s father, 48, was sentenced to two years in prison for mistreating her daughter, now free, in the family.
The accused, defended by the lawyer Cristina Barboni, has always rejected the accusations, claims to have been a strict but never violent parent. He opposed the reconstruction of the young woman who had confided humiliations, threats and beatings suffered by her parent to the investigators. It all started in Pakistan where the girl, then 15, was to get married. She was romantically linked to a young man in her country, and they had to get married. But he had changed his mind at the last moment and the young woman’s family had considered it too great a ‘shame’ and had decided to ‘remedy’ to take his daughter away from Pakistan and have her arrive in Italy where her father had settled with a job and its independence. The living conditions of the minor in Ancona, however, would have been essentially those of a prisoner with no possibility of a free life. The parent, according to her accusations, would not have enrolled her in school, nor would he have allowed her to learn the Italian language, requiring her to attend only her adult women, her compatriots. No social life with peers in the village, no going out of the house.
During her two-year stay, her father allegedly made her weigh the canceled marriage, harassing and insulting her; and he would also beat her, with fists behind her back, slaps and hands around her neck.
An unsustainable situation that would go on until November 2021 when the girl escaped the control of her parent and filed a complaint with the carabinieri, recounting the abuses suffered. Hence the investigation coordinated by the prosecutor Irene Bilotta, the trial and the sentence issued by the college of the court of Ancona, chaired by Edi Ragaglia, who sentenced the 48-year-old to two years in prison for the crime of mistreatment in the family which also absorbed the other disputed charge, namely that of kidnapping.
Source: Ansa
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