A Florence judge on
Tuesday sent a convicted pedophile to trial on fresh charges of
child sexual abuse.
Rodolfo Fiesoli, who founded a rural institute for troubled
kids in the Tuscan valley of Mugello called Il Forteto in the
1970s, was sentenced in June this year to 17 and a half years in
prison for child sexual abuse, cruelty to children, and group
violence.
Forteto ideologue Luigi Goffredi was sentenced to eight
years on the same charges in a trial of first instance.
The convicts "imposed cruel and arbitrary rules on the
minors placed in their care," the judges wrote in their
motivation for those verdicts.
Another 16 defendants got sentences ranging from three to
seven years, while seven others were acquitted.
The guilty were also sentenced to pay 1.26 million euros in
damages to the victims.
The new trial was ordered based on testimony by one of the
witnesses at the trial of first instance, who was placed in care
at Il Forteto in 2003.
Prosecutors say Fiesoli repeatedly sexually abused the
witness ever since his arrival there, at the age of 11.
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