A gynecologist who carried out
an autopsy on the body of six-year-old alleged rape and murder
victim Fortuna Loffredo told a trial hearing in Naples on Friday
that he found unprecedented head trauma on her body.
"After decades on the job, I had only seen three other times"
such severe injury, Giuseppe Saggese told the hearing in Naples.
Prosecutors say Fortuna was repeatedly raped before allegedly
being thrown off a balcony on the eighth floor on June 24, 2014.
Friday's was the fourth hearing of the trial against a
neighbor in the Caivano district, Raimondo Caputo, and his
partner Marianna Fabozzi, which began last month.
The first expert to testify at the hearing was Attilio
Mazzei, a pediatrician who saw the youngest of Fabozzi's three
children.
He told the court he had found no sign of abuse on her older
sister.
Gynecologist Saggese then testified that he found extensive
lesions on Loffredo's bones and internal organs, which are
compatible with her falling from a high altitude.
A computer expert, Giuseppe Vallone, also told the court on
Friday that he found a video in the cell phone of one of
Fabozzi's daughters portraying a man lying down as two young
girls play while a woman is filming.
The girls call the woman mother.
Caputo is accused of repeatedly sexually abusing Loffredo and
then killing her, after she resisted his umpteenth sexual
advance.
Fabozzi, his former partner, is on trial for allegedly
failing to report this abuse and for the suspected murder of her
son Antonio Giglio, aged four, who also plunged to his death in
April 2013.
Prosecutors believe local residents may have taken steps to
throw the investigation off track as they look into a suspected
paedophilia ring.
There is also the case of Salvatore Mucci, the person who was
the first to assist Fortuna and took her to hospital.
He was arrested in December 2014 for allegedly abusing his
12-year-old daughter.
His partner was accused of the same crime months later.
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