«The devil in the body»: weeks of prayers but Satan «did not come out», then the torture. Barreca's 17-year-old daughter: "I would do it all again"
"They were right, there was the devil in the house": the girl was arrested, she is not the only survivor as initially assumed, but she actively participated in the massacreA chilling confession. "I believe in God and demons, I also participated in the exorcism, we did it for their good."
Thus the 17 year old admitted, she escaped the massacre of her family because she shared the mystical delirium of her father and his couple of friends, she participated in the torture and murder of her mother and two brothers . Convinced that the devil had entered the house.
Now she is also accused of multiple murder and concealment of a corpse and is in prison. This is the last macabre piece of a horror story, the massacre of Altavilla Milicia, in the Palermo area, in which Antonella Salamone and her two children Kevin and Emanuel, aged 5 and 15, were killed .
«The collective ritual – explains the Termini Imerese prosecutor Ambrogio Cartosio – had started a month ago and involved the entire Barreca family and the couple formed by Massimo Carandente and Sabrina Fina. They were all in the grip of a mystical delirium ."
When the girl told the prosecutor "I believe in God and demons" , everything became much clearer. In particular the reason why Barreca's daughter was spared. At that point the interrogation was suspended and a court-appointed lawyer was appointed.
The girl said that to free the house, her mother and brothers from the devil for weeks , together with Carandente and Fina who her father had met on social media, they had prayed . Prayers that would not have brought results, so they turned to violence to force Satan out of the bodies of family members . Together with her father and two other accomplices, the 17-year-old tortured her mother, who was against going forward. Hit with a frying pan, with a fireplace poker, burned with a hairdryer . Then it was the turn of the two brothers: tortured, beaten, hit with electric wires, then suffocated and hogtied .
"I would do it all again, we did it for their good," the teenager told the prosecutor. “They were right,” he added, referring to Carandente and Fina.
«Behaviors have occurred on several occasions which have a distorted religious origin and which do not only occur in Termini Imerese, but throughout the national territory. It is useless to underline how many cases we have found that religion or certain roles within the church have been used for the purpose of sexually abusing minors. In some cases the abuse was aimed not only at sexual purposes but also at exploiting people economically and professionally. This time we are dealing with a tragedy that represents the maximum of human imagination ", denounced the Termini prosecutor .
«We make an appeal, especially to young people, to take action to bring these situations to light. I know it is difficult and complicated to bring out certain things but this terrible tragedy shows that silence can sometimes be its own death sentence . The structures of the judiciary, law enforcement and other institutions are able to effectively help the victims of these crimes", underlined the Prosecutor.
(Unioneonline/L)