Milan, 27-year-old American denounces: "I was attacked and raped in a park"

A 27-year-old American designer reported being attacked and raped yesterday in a park in Milan .

The story began at 6 pm, when the girl was seen coming out barefoot and staggering, in an evident state of suffering, from the Trenno park , on the western outskirts of the Lombard capital.

A passerby approached her to ask if everything was okay and, visibly in shock and in a mix of Italian and English, the young woman explained that she was ill and that she had been attacked.

A local police patrol arrived on the spot and the girl burst into tears: " I was raped there in the park by a stranger ," she reported.

In the area, not far from the Bonola shopping center, there is usually traffic, in the park many runners. But no one, according to the first checks carried out by the investigators, noticed anything .

An ambulance accompanied the girl to the Sexual and Domestic Violence Rescue of the Mangiagalli clinic for the first medical report and the visit with the psychologists. Investigators from the Women's and Minors Protection Unit of the local police are working on the case, the responsibility of prosecutor Nicola Rossato.

(Unioneonline/L)