The supreme Cassation Court
has upheld the convictions of seven out of eight defendants
found guilty of pimping and using two teen prostitutes who
worked out of an apartment in Rome's upscale Parioli district.
Barman and pimp Mirko Ieni saw his sentence of nine years
and four months confirmed.
The top appeals court also confirmed a seven-year sentence
for army corporal Nunzio Pizzacalla, and a six-year, four-month
sentence for Sabrina D.S., one of the girls' mothers.
A one-year, eight-month sentence was quashed for Gianluca
Sammarone, whose case was returned to the second tier of Italy's
appeals system.
Many other users of the teen bordello plea-bargained short
sentences in the case.
They included rightist MP Alessandra Mussolini's husband
Mauro Floriani, a former finance police officer who is now a
manager at State-controlled national rail company Trenitalia and
who got a one-year term.
Floriani's sentence was suspended, as is routine for all
custodial terms of two years or less.
Wiretaps revealed Floriani was one of the clients who
contacted the girls most often.
Floriani has three children with his wife, who is the
granddaughter of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini and has
recently served as chair of a parliamentary children's rights
committee.
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