A Turin man was sentenced to
nine months in jail on Monday for causing psychological trauma
in his daughters after forcing them to eat a macrobiotic diet
and ski at a competitive level for being "too fat".
The verdict could set a judicial precedent in the Italian
courts, where no similar sentences have been handed down before.
Prosecutors had asked for 10 months in the case of the
father who was convicted of mistreating and psychologically
abusing his daughters with repeated insults and the enforced
exercise and diet program.
The man, whom prosecutors described as wealthy, said he was
alarmed at how his daughters looked in Facebook photos, and
maintained that his concerns represented normal parental worry
about his daughters' health.
Complaints were made in 2011 by the man's ex-wife, who told
prosecutors the former couple's daughters did not want to visit
their father.
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