The mother of one of the teen
prostitutes who worked out of a flat in Rome's upscale Parioli
district was taken to prison Friday to serve a six-year,
four-month sentence for pimping.
The arrest was made after an appeal was denied and the
woman, 46, was taken to the women's wing of Rebibbia prison.
Last week the supreme Cassation Court upheld the convictions
of seven out of eight defendants found guilty of pimping and
using the two teen prostitutes.
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 the six-year,
four-month sentence for Sabrina D.S., one of the mothers of the
girls, who were aged 14 and 15.
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 had already
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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