Violence also against ten-year-old girls: the "sect of beasts" on trial

They had given each other names of animals - the most disparate - with which they identified on the occasion of meetings with the " sect of beasts ".

Now the protagonists of the secret association , which according to the accusations deceived young women (even ten-year-old girls) and then made them fall into a network made up of repeated sexual violence , will go to trial on 24 February in the Assizes Court in Novara . The defendants are all from Milan or Lombardy and among them are teachers , dance teachers , managers and entrepreneurs .

The " guru " Gianni Maria Guidi , an 80-year-old with a past as a herbalist , would have held the reins of the group. The man, residing in Milan, organized meetings with his loyalists in a farmhouse in the Novara area . The abuses would have taken place in the woods and the silence of the place. For the victims, isolated from the town, it would have been impossible to escape.

Some, with the promise of receiving positions or important positions within the "sect", would have been removed from the family and forced to pay large sums of money to Guidi . The investigation was born after the complaint of one of the girls, thanks to which the group was discovered.

(Unioneonline/vf)