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Italian court annuls prison sentence for elderly
paedophile after 11-year-old victim tells
investigators in Catanzaro that she loves him Local Supreme Court judges sexual abuse
to be a ‘romantic relationship’ Catanzaro Court of Appeal By JOHN HALL Thursday 12 December 2013 An Italian appeals court has annulled a five-year
prison sentence for a 60-year-old paedophile
after it judged his sexual abuse of an 11-year-old
girl to be a “romantic relationship”. According to local media reports, the Corte
d'Apello in Catanzaro – a coastal city in the
southern Italian province of Calabria – ruled that
the pair were in a “real relationship” after the
victim told prosecutors she was in love with her
abuser. According to the Italian news website TGCom24, the child is from a disadvantaged background and
had been placed into the care of the man – who
works for the local social services department. It is alleged that his sexual abuse of the child was
discovered when officers raided a seaside cottage
and found the pair naked in bed. The man was initially sentenced to five years in
prison for sexual violence against a minor, as the
age of consent in Italy is 14, raising to 16 when one
of the participants is in a position of authority or
care over the other. Despite the clarity of this law, the Catanzaro court
quashed the original sentence on the grounds of
extenuating circumstances after the victim
repeatedly told investigators that she loved the
defendant. Following the annulment, the case is due to be
sent back to the Catanzaro court for a retrial.