(supersedes)The mother of
six-year-old Fortuna Loffredo, who was thrown to her death off
an eighth-floor balcony on June 24, 2014, told a trial hearing
into the little girl's death Friday that she "doesn't believe"
the child was raped.
"My daughter never said anything to me, the teachers, the
social workers," Domenica Guardato told the court. "She only
mentioned burning sensations in front, and we went to the doctor
who gave me an ointment, without examining her".
A gynecologist who carried out an autopsy on the little
girl's body told the court he found unprecedented head trauma on
her body.
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.
Prosecutors say Fortuna was repeatedly raped before allegedly
being thrown off the balcony.
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.
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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