A 15-year-old boy was
reportedly held captive by a group of four younger minors in a
garage in northern Italy recently and tortured for hours.
The boy's parents, who reside in Varese, reported the attack
to police, according to the La Prealpina newspaper.
The victim was reportedly tied to a chair with electric
cables, beaten on his feet with a metal bar and threatened with
a club spiked with nails and a knife to the throat.
The gang were allegedly trying to get the victim to give
information about a friend of his who they were looking for.
A lawyer for the 15-year-old said "his attackers are younger,
they frequent middle schools and he saw them outside the school
when he went to get his little brother who went to the same
institute."
He said his client "is having trouble speaking, he's still in
shock".
The lawyer said the boy had been treated in a
neuro-psychiatry ward for five days.
"Tomorrow he will be re-examined by the child psychiatrist.
He took a lot of punishment, the bruising should heal in 15 days
but we don't have forecasts for his psychological state".
The lawyer said the physical wounds would heal quicky but "we
are also faced with deep emotional wounds".
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