7 of 8 sentences upheld in Parioli

(ANSA) - Rome, October 20 - 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.