Fortuna's mum 'doesn't believe in rape' (2)

(supersedes)(ANSA) - Naples, December 9 - 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.