Kicking, punching and whipping his partner's nine-year-old son.

A 39-year-old man of Moldovan origins has come under investigation for the violence against the little boy who, as reported by Il Mattino di Padova, is now on a bed in the pediatrics department of the Padua hospital , hospitalized with a prognosis of twenty days.

It was three teachers who realized that something very serious was happening at home.

The child showed up at school with obvious signs on his face, one day even with his face completely swollen near his eye. “My stepfather beats me because I don't obey,” he told the teachers, who after much resistance convinced him to speak. Indeed, to write on a "secret sheet" everything that happened within the home.

He should have told the teachers that he had fallen from the bed, and even his mother, faced with the evidence, continued to deny everything, claiming that he had caused those marks himself. But according to the medical report those injuries are completely incompatible with possible accidental falls . Indeed, due to their location on various parts of the body, they would have been caused by "beatings with a belt or blunt instruments". Maybe even with electrical cables.

The Padua public prosecutor Sergio Dini had requested the arrest of the 39-year-old, but the investigating judge Claudio Marassi established a residence ban in the municipality where the child lives with his mother, removal from the family home with an absolute ban on approaching the victim and places frequented by him as well as having contacts (even indirect) without the judge's authorization.

(Unioneonline/D)

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