Doctor testifies in Fortuna trial

(ANSA) - Naples, December 9 - 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.