A municipal councilor from the Italian city of Genoa (northwest), Francesca Ghio, denounced during a plenary session the rape she suffered when she was 12 years old, a statement by which The prosecution opened an investigation this Wednesday.
“I was 12 years old, I lived well in Genoa, I was 12 years old when I was physically and psychologically raped within the walls of my house, repeatedly for months by a man I trusted and who “No one would have suspected he was a monster.”party councilor Rossoverde admitted from her seat.
Ghio, currently aged 31, targeted a “Genoese chefa good boy of yours,” he said from his bench, without giving more details on the identity of his alleged attacker.
“He told me that I had to keep quiet, that this had to be our secret. I had to swear to him that I wouldn’t tell anyone while he subjected me to his torture. The domination of the man, of the father, of my mind and my body under his authority, emblem of patriarchy,” he denounced.
The councilor, referring to the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, denounced that “no one” told her that “she could talk about it”.
“No one asked me why I had suddenly become an introvert, even though I had never been a quiet child. This society has neither the time nor the space to take care of people, it moves forward, it builds dams and streets, it moves towards progress and new promises, it moves forward forgetting to protect and take care of the precious good of life, and people become less important, abandoned,” he lamented .
Ghio, who assured that he had never reported these events, said that society “has a problem” in handling this type of crime.
A day later, the Genoa public prosecutor’s office opened an investigation into an alleged crime of aggravated sexual violence, according to media reports.
