Veruska (English Edition)

Universal Children Day

2010-11-20T22:41:00.003+01:00

10 years old mother

2010-11-07T23:21:00.002+01:00

3th, november 2010 - In Spain, at Jerez de la Frontera, on 26th october Elena, a 10 years old girl became mother of Nicoletta, a 2,9 Kg. little girl. The father Gheorghe is 13 years old and he's Elena's cousin. The kids are romanian and Elena's mother is not surprised: "For us is normal a 10yo girl become mother and have her own family."

In the meanwhile, in Ischia (Italy), a 13yo girl became mother of a 4kg. little girl at Lacco Ameno Hospital: she called her Noemi, in agree with the 18 years old father, Francesco. They will live in her parents' house. Francesco will continue to study on the island.

Blackmail

2010-02-07T18:49:00.005+01:00

Blackmailing 13-years risque photo...

Bad Health

2010-02-03T02:21:00.001+01:00

Abused granddaughter, sentenced to 8 years...

Hi-Tech Ogre

2009-12-14T00:00:00.000+01:00

He shows porn movies to children...

Pedophile Grandpa Free

2009-12-11T00:00:00.000+01:00

Pedophile grandpa acquitted...

Cocaine in panties

2009-12-09T00:00:00.000+01:00

Father hides cocaine in his daughter's underwear...

Kindergarten Lager

2009-12-06T20:37:00.002+01:00

http://firenze.repubblica.it/dettaglio/Botte-allasilo-la-furia-dei-genitori/1796147

Video of the day

2009-11-18T10:00:00.001+01:00

Stop the bullet. kill the gun.

Muhammad pedophile

2009-11-09T01:35:00.000+01:00

Italian politician leader Daniela Santanchè, during a heated discussion about Holy Cross in a TV show, offends prophet Muhammad: "He was a polygamist and a pedophile, he married a 9 years old child."

In & Out

2009-11-08T15:15:00.001+01:00

23th October 2009 - It happens in a nursery school near Reggio Emilia. We celebrate the Berlin Wall falling, but new walls are raised up every day. Are we going to put ourself in a ghetto keeping out other people?

School Grisanti Luzzara: the case of building Allende
Discussion in Council is committed to continuing with the commission
Read the translated article.

(Source: ilgiornaledireggio.it)

Vintage wines

2009-11-07T17:41:00.000+01:00

The pedofile grandpa photographs the grandchild: «Shut up or I'll publish them»
The child, 12 years old, forced to go down in the cellar.

TURIN, 6th november 2009 - The man invites her to go down in the cellar, and there he take off her clothes and make photographs stored on his computer with other child porn material. Police discovered him during an investigation on child porn on internet. He is also accused of private violence, because he threatened the little girl to publish the photos on the web if she says something.
However, the man has obtnained house arrest because of his age.

(Source: cronacaqui.it)

News Review

2009-11-07T01:03:00.000+01:00

Sentenced to two years the father ogre

RIMINI, 06/11/2009 - He was sentenced to two years the 40 years old worker from Rimini guilty of having abused not once but several times of her younger daughter, who at the time was only 4. The child, who is now 6, confessed everything to his mother, who also have a two-years younger daughter with the man and was warned by her parents. She had understood that her daughter says she was invited by his father to pick up the penis, to fondle and kiss him. Little had gone even further in detail, explaining that on one occasion she had refused, saying clearly that was shit. In vain, during the trial that followed, the man tried to explain that it was a misunderstanding. The challenge is to understand whether the child's mother will even start practice to ask the Juvenile Court to remove the man the paternal authority.

(Source: romagnanoi.it)

Raped her daughter-in-law and 5yo grandson: arrested the ogre

ARIANO IRPINO, 05/11/2009 - A young mother of 25 years suffered the abuses of the father-in-law, a 65 years old farmer who lived with her in a dilapidated and badly kept cottage, for 9 years, since he was still a minor. She had always been silent, perhaps because the ogre had always threatened, but his attention in the recent past have also targeted his 5 years old daughter and in July she reported everything to the agents of the Commissioner of Police Tricolle. A terrific story, which has aroused the police official who completed surveys and then translated into prison the man in prison.

(Source: irpinianews.it)

Abusing 12 years old daughter of his common-law wife. In handcuffs.

VARESE, 05/11/2009 - It seemed like another love story between two South Americans, but the reality was quite different. Months of suffering, from April to now passed in silence until the dramatic revelation occurred a few days ago, the sexual abuses confessed by the woman's daughter, a girl of just 12 years old and made by the partner of the woman. The ogre, a 40 years old South American, was taken in by some fellow near Milan, but was soon caught.

(Source: satelionews.it)

Fake photographer lured minors

ROME, 06/11/2009 - He waited for them out of the school "Parini", where he was well known by all students, and lured them with the promise of free photo book and an easy climb to the world of fashion. The 42-year old, actually a school bus driver, leading to his house - without pressure or threats - girls aged 11 to 13 years ready to do anything for a photo on a glossy magazine, portraying them as a group or alone, half-naked or in lingerie on bed in provocative poses, then catalog them in his private archive. In many cases were the same girls to bring home the "costumes". Indicated by a 13 year old perhaps jealous, during a normal drugs control in local schools he took the complaint at large for child pornography.

(Source: iltempo.it)

Abused his daughter for 10 years

CASTELNOVO MONTI, 06/11/2009 - Has forced her daughter of only 11 years old to suffer and perform sexual acts, has tied his other son to a bed with chains, striking him with his belt. Subjected the wife to constant harassment and death threats. An entire family of a country of our Appenino suffered in silence for almost 10 years the violence of a man who called himself "father" or "husband". For a mother and her two sons, who have lived in fear, now the nightmare is over. The police have arrested a 53 years old worker. The charges against him weigh like rocks: sexual violence against the minor child, abuse in the family, private violence.

(Source: telereggio.it)

Photo of the day

2009-11-05T11:15:00.001+01:00

They look into the lens but also beyond. They look the other side of the tragedy and seem to search a world where children are finally in the right to a normal life. They fix the photographer S. Sabawoon of Agency EPA and the result are these shots of a beauty and depth almost disconcerting. The stage is one of the many refugee camps near Kabul in Afghanistan.

Full photo set on flickR.

(Source: repubblica.it)

Death to pedophile!

2009-11-04T11:32:00.001+01:00

Hanging on live TV. This is the new challenge of Channel 4, who will broadcasts on 9th November a fiction focused on Paul Gadd, better known as 1970s rock star Gary Glitter and played by scottish actor Hilton McRae.

Channel 4: The Execution of Gary Glitter

Gary Glitter spent four months in prison in the UK in 1999 for downloading child pornography. In 2002 was expelled from Cambodia and in 2008 has been released from prison in Vietnam after serving almost three years for sexual molestation of two underage girls of 11 and 12 years old. Finally, in march 2006, was discovered the singer had a daguhter from a vietnamese prostitute and she also sold him her 10 years old niece.

The fiction "The execution of Gary Glitter" is set in an imaginary Britain in which the death penalty has been re-introduced (abolished in 1969), because of a law against pedophilia named "Capital Crimes Against Children". In this parallel world, the first person to be tried under the new legislation is Paul Gadd and the movie follows his trial and execution.

A poll commissioned by Channel 4 found 70% of those surveyed thought the UK should have the death penalty as the maximum possible penalty for the most serious crimes.

Safe Streets

2009-11-03T19:18:00.000+01:00

Pedophile caught half-naked with four children in car

Carpenedolo (Brescia), 4th october 2009 - It happens in Carpenedolo, near Brescia, where on 4 October, the Traffic Police in Montichiari spoke shortly after 17 to check a Fiat Punto parked at a rest area, reported by some passers who had heard cries coming from the vehicle. The police found a 57 years old farmer with his pants down, masturbating in front of four Moroccan children of 5, 7, 11 and 12 years old, two pairs of sisters, cousins to each other, frightened and in tears. The man, a neighbor of one of them, had lured them into a park near a mall, offering them a ride by car to take her back home. Medical examinations were then established that the four would not have suffered abuse and physical violence. Man, who seemed not to have leaks from the first resisted and even sketched out any kind of apology about what was happening, but was then challenged also resisting a public officer, in addition to the crimes of kidnapping, indecent exposure in public places and sexual acts against children.
During the raid at his house they have been seized videotapes containing child pornography. The man, with no criminal record and married with a grown up daughter, after confirming custody on 8 October, remains in solitary confinement in the home district of Canton Mombello (a regime which for him is a guarantee of safety from a unwritten law that treats pedophiles as infamous). In the meantime, the defense has asked for a psychiatric evaluation. "If child abuse is a deviant I wish someone would tell us - said the lawyer Marino Colosio - whether my client knew what he was doing and still is aware of his condition and his actions."

(Sources: corriere.it, in-dies.info, taggatore.com, irispress.it, bresciaoggi.it, poliziadistato.it)

Visualizzazione ingrandita della mappa

Ogre father in jail

2009-11-03T12:31:00.000+01:00

Sexual abuse of baby daughter. Ogre father in jail
In trouble even his mother who was blackmailing her husband but continues to live next to the child

TURIN, 3 November 2009 - Several days ago a man was sentenced to 5 years and 4 months by a court in Turin to have made sexual acts against the daughter when she was born just three months before. After the verdict, the accused still at large, had returned to live with the child and his partner, but yesterday was arrested.
The man, who lives in Anzio in the province of Rome, was taken in custody by agents of the Criminal Section of Turin. The protective order was signed to prevent the risk of recurrence of crime. In the meantime, also the mother of the small was under investigation on charges of sexual violence in the competition omission.

The wiretaps have enabled us to discover that she was aware of the abuses committed by the husband and therefore was blackmailing the man: "Do as I say, or I'll sue you." The man, who today is 70 years old and his wife 47, are the parents of little, born in 2003 (when the family lived in Turin and Daddy Ogre was 66) and sexually abused by their father began three months later. The man used to get completely naked in bed, next to the baby. Then he reached into the small diaper and caressed her intimate parts. Other times, rubbing his sexual organ against the child's diaper, procuring redness and vaginal bleeding. One day the mother of the newborn became aware of the presence of a pubic hair in her daughter's diapers, believing that the problem was linked to the brand of diapers, he decided to buy another brand.

But the pubic hair did not disappear. The woman still did not suspect anything, then a few days later, returned home, she discovered her husband busy rubbing his penis against the child's diaper. The woman was silent to observe, but from that point on he began to blackmail him.
All the facts that emerged during the wiretaps ordered by the court: "Look, if I run the shit you do end up in jail there," "The other year in November I exploded," Fortunately she was small and does not remember anything" "I very detached from his father, but I know not to lay off due to leave them alone."

Phrases that leave no doubt that the mother knew and kept silent. Indeed, the mother knew and blackmailed her husband. That's why, now, is finished in trouble too. Too bad, though, that she continues to live with her daughter. It will be the Court of Rome (since the family moved in the meantime, a town in Lazio) make a decision, after the arrest of his father, this paradoxical situation.

(Source: cronacaqui.it)

Maddie McCann today

2009-11-03T12:04:00.000+01:00

Maddie McCann today
A video with the little girl older by two years

LONDON - British police have circulated on the Internet a video of Madeleine McCann disappeared in Portugal in 2007, which shows pictures of the little girl aged two years to the computer and asked anyone in possession of information about his disappearance to be alive.
The girl disappeared May 3, 2007 from the seaside resort of Praia da Luz while on holiday with his parents and two brothers. Time was about four years. He disappeared the evening from the hotel room where his parents had left her to sleep with the brothers, while they went to dinner with friends. The video is also available at the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre or to the website dedicated to his research. This video contains images taken at the time of her disappearance and her photos retouched, that the show might be like today, some with longer hair or darker or tanned skin than in the case lived in southern Europe, Africa or the Middle East. "It's never too late to make a good decision," is said in the video. "If you know something, contact the nearest police station."

(Source: corriere.it)

The King is dead!

2009-06-27T21:46:00.000+02:00

Principal arrested for harrassment

2009-05-28T22:42:00.000+02:00

It was the video of a hidden cam placed by police in his office in a School of Sciacca (Sicily, Italy) to frame him. It's there where the 61yo principal calls the school girls and where he makes harrassments and abuses. The victims are girls between 14 and 15 years old. The principal has been arrested by order of judge Salvatore Giannino on request by attorney Vincenzo Pantaleo.

Images from the videos are very clear and they show the principal approaching the victims, make hard comments, touching the embarassed and astonished girls. The man is accused of harrassment and sexual abuses. The investigation started from some girls complaints. The principal is now in jail.

(Source: unitaliano.myblog.it)

She was my daughter

2009-05-27T13:56:00.000+02:00

At "Del Tre" theatre in Catania (Sicily, Italy), on Friday 22, Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 May 2009, they will put on the play “She was my daughter" by Luigi Favara, directed by Giovanni Scuto, interpreted by Liliana Scalia, Stefania Micale, Cettina Giorgianni, Roberto Pricoco and Luigi Favara himself.

It is a drama coming from cultural activities of the association "Oltre le quinte", and talking about pedophilia using realistic and metaphysical descriptions, of reality theatre, avant-garde and greek tragedy, with pieces about Sicily and its traditions and enunciation of articles from the International Convention on the right of the Child.

“She was my daughter” talking about a mother emigrated from Sicily with her 13yo daughter in northern Italy, where she lives one of the worst nightmare of a parent: "the rape and the violent death of her daughter" because of a pedophile.

The purpose of the play is to put attention on this argument, reporting not only the crime but also the absence of the institutes which should protect the minors.

Pedophilia is a difficult argument, because of the moral and religious implication (think to Sex crimes and Vatican, 2006 scandal video about pedophile priests). Cinema, theatre and Literature often talk about pedophilia, sometimes with a difficult path, like "Animanera" (Blacksoul) by Raffaele Verzillo, a 2006 movie which found a distribution only 2 years later, and it was a flop. An italian masterpiece is "Death in Venice" by Luchino Visconti (1971), from the Thomas Mann's "The death in Venice”, talking the love between a 50yo musician and a polish teenager. We also remember "La mala educacion" by Pedro Almodovar which talk about two gay teenagers and a priest, Don Manolo; “Mystic River” directed by Clint Eastwood, winner of two Oscar and a Golden Globe; "Doubt" (2008), written and directed by John Patrick Shanley, adapted from the homonymous play. 1964, in a school in Bronx, a priest is suspected to have abused of a child; interpreted by Meryl Streep, nominated for this role at Academy Awards 2009.

excerpt from an article by Milena Vigneri
(Source: siciliatoday.net)

Facere et Docere

2009-05-25T10:12:00.000+02:00

Report Details Abuses in Irish Reformatories
By SARAH LYALL

LONDON, May 20, 2009 — Tens of thousands of Irish children were sexually, physically and emotionally abused by nuns, priests and others over 60 years in a network of church-run residential schools meant to care for the poor, the vulnerable and the unwanted, according to a report released in Dublin on Wednesday.

The 2,600-page report paints a picture of institutions run more like Dickensian orphanages than 20th-century schools, characterized by privation and cruelty that could be both casual and choreographed.

“A climate of fear, created by pervasive, excessive and arbitrary punishment, permeated most of the institutions,” the report says. In the boys’ schools, it says, sexual abuse was “endemic.”

The report, by a state-appointed commission, took nine years to produce and was meant to help Ireland face and move on from one of the ugliest aspects of its recent history. But it has infuriated many victims’ groups because it does not name any of the hundreds of individuals accused of abuse and thus cannot be used as a basis for prosecutions.

It was delayed because of a lawsuit brought by the Christian Brothers, the religious order that ran many of the boys’ schools and that fought, ultimately successfully, to have the abusers’ names omitted. In 2003, the commission’s first chairwoman resigned, saying that Ireland’s Department of Education had refused to release crucial documents. The report covers a period from the 1930s to the 1990s, when the last of the institutions closed.

It exposes for the first time the scope of the problem in Ireland, as well as how the government and the church colluded in perpetuating an abusive system. The revelations have also had the effect of stripping the Catholic Church, which once set the agenda in Ireland, of much of its moral authority and political power.

The report singles out Ireland’s Department of Education, meant to regulate the schools, for running “toothless” inspections that overlooked glaring problems and deferred to church authority.

The report is based in part on old church records of unreported abuse cases and in part on the anonymous testimony of 1,060 former students from a variety of 216 mostly church-run institutions, including reformatories and so-called industrial schools, set up to tend to neglected, orphaned or abandoned children.

Most of the former students are now 50 to 80 years old.

Some 30,000 children were sent to such places over six decades, the report says, often against their families’ wishes and because of pressure from powerful local priests. They were sent because their families could not afford to care for them, because their mothers had committed adultery or given birth out of wedlock, or because one or both of their parents was ill, drunken or abusive. They were also sent because of petty crime, like stealing food, or because they had missed school.

Many of the former students said that they had not learned their own identities until decades later. They also said that their parents had unsuccessfully tried to reclaim them from the state.

In a litany that sounds as if it comes from the records of a P.O.W. camp, the report chronicles some of the forms of physical abuse suffered in the boys’ schools:

“Punching, flogging, assault and bodily attacks, hitting with the hand, kicking, ear pulling, hair pulling, head shaving, beating on the soles of the feet, burning, scalding, stabbing, severe beatings with or without clothes, being made to kneel and stand in fixed positions for lengthy periods, made to sleep outside overnight, being forced into cold or excessively hot baths and showers, hosed down with cold water before being beaten, beaten while hanging from hooks on the wall, being set upon by dogs, being restrained in order to be beaten, physical assaults by more than one person, and having objects thrown at them.”

Some of the schools operated essentially as workhouses. In one school, Goldenbridge, girls as young as 7 spent hours a day making rosaries by stringing beads onto lengths of wire. They were given quotas: 600 beads on weekdays and 900 on Sundays.

Girls were routinely sexually abused, often by more than one person at a time, the report said, in “dormitories, schools, motor vehicles, bathrooms, staff bedrooms, churches, sacristies, fields, parlors, the residences of clergy, holiday locations and while with godparents and employers.”

The Vatican had no response. But leaders of various religious orders — who often argued during the investigations that the abuse was a relic of another time, reflecting past societal standards — issued abject apologies on Wednesday, taking care to frame the problem as something that is now behind them.

Cardinal Sean Brady, the Catholic primate of All Ireland, said in a statement that he was “profoundly sorry and deeply ashamed,” adding, “I hope the publication of today’s report will help heal the hurts of victims and address the wrongs of the past.”

David Clohessy, director of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, a group based in St. Louis, said that while the report had failed in its duty to bring the perpetrators to justice, it had been clear about the failings of the church.

“While horrific, widespread reports of abuse and cover-up are sadly quite common, the significance here is that a government panel is conclusively saying that the finger-pointing and blame-shifting and excuse-making of the church hierarchy is bogus,” he said in an interview.

The commission was formed in 2000, after an explosive series of radio programs and documentaries in the 1990s began exposing a terrible secret that had been kept by an entire society: the details of what went on in the children’s homes. In 1999, Bertie Ahern, then the prime minister, issued a blanket apology to the victims of the abuse.

Since then, the accusations and the question of justice have been a preoccupation across Ireland and among Irish emigrants around the world. In 2002, the Catholic Church in Ireland agreed to pay $175 million to compensate victims of sexual abuse by members of the clergy. A separate group has paid out some $1.5 billion so far to more than 10,000 people who have claimed they were abused in state and church-run institutions.

Terence McKiernan, president of BishopAccountability.org, an American group that maintains an Internet archive of material related to Catholic abuse, said that the report had failed by not going far enough.

“The report is significant in that it provides a detailed anatomy of how the abuse occurred and the institutions in which it occurred,” he said in an interview. “The problem is that you spend almost 10 years and who knows how much money, and you never get to the point of saying who was responsible.”

(Source: nytimes.com)

A kick to pedophilia

2009-05-24T16:10:00.000+02:00

On Monday May 25, 2009 at 11:00AM in the conference room of Santissima Annunziata Hospital, in Egiziaca Street in Forcella (Naples, Italy) will be presented the 1° Soccer Trophy "A KICK TO PEDOPHILIA AND A KICK TO ILLEGALITY".

A project related to prevention to pedophilia and abuses, promoted by “P.A.I.D.E.I.A. onlus”, “Scugnizzi” Association, Office for Minor Rights, Sport Center “Il Boschetto” A.S.D. Mariano Keller, and the support of Church and institutions.

36 F.I.G.C. (Italian Soccer Federation) teams from Campania of different ages from 7 to 17 will join the trophy, other than a team from Nisida Correction Facility for Minors and a team of "scugnizzi" (street urchin in Neapolitan dialect). The event will take place in May 29/30 2009 at "Il Boschetto A.S.D. Mariano Keller" in Capodichino, while the final matches and the match “A kick to illegality” will ake place on May 31 at the Sport Center "Caravita" in Cercola.

At the first kick (Friday May 29 at 9:00), there will be the testimonial Gennaro Iezzo (Naples soccer team goalkeeper) and all 718 children who join the trophy, all with a t-shirt with the words “A kick to pedophilia”.

(Source: napoli.cronacacity.com)

Past, present and future

2009-05-11T00:02:00.000+02:00

Best wishes to all the moms!

Children no more

2009-05-09T13:45:00.001+02:00

It will arrive in Piacenza, Italy, in Farnese Palace, 8th and 9th may 2009, the exibition "Children no more - pencils against minor abuses", born with the intent to

to awaken public opinion to one of the worst problems of our society: minor abuses, in any form and place in the world, perpetrate with practices like domestic violence, pedophilia, minor work and prostitution, sex tourism, mass media psychological manipulation, child soldiers, civil victims of war.

Exibition curators and Karibu Onlus really believe that comics and illustrations are fascinating and evocative means of communication — not just for play — perfectly able to spread universal messages in the collective immaginary for a target from child to elderly people, using an original language, different from usual stereotypy.

140 italian artists, from professionl ones to young beginners, all with undoubted talent, answer to selection. Here are some significant ones:

Giuseppe Palumbo, Giuseppe Manunta, Francesca Ghermandi, Leo Ortolani, Maurizio Ribichini, Onofrio Catacchio, Alberto Corradi, Antonio Bruno, Alberto Ponticelli, Alessio Spataro, Massimo Giacon, Claudio Parentela, Ottokin, Stefano Piccoli, Squaz, Ratigher, Nicoz, Gianluca Costantini, Claudio Stassi, Paolo Parisi, Elena Rapa, Emiliano Mammucari, Falcinelli & Poggi, Mauro Cicarè, Genea, MP5, Luisa Montalto, Maicol & Mirco, Hurricane Ivan, Lele Corvi, Luca Genovese, Maurizio Rosenzweig, Matteo Cremona, Paolo Di Orazio, Roberto Mangosi, Rocco Lombardi, Stefano Misesti, Sergio Algozzino, Thomas Bires, Sergio Ponchione, Miguel Angel Martin, Aleksandar Zograf, Peter Kuper, Max Andersson, Mike Diana, Trevor Brown, Ivan Brun, Eric Drooker, Mac McGill, Jennifer Camper, Ryan Inzana, Daniel Silvestre da Silva, Rafael Gouveia, Line Hoven.

Children No More took already place here:
3/15 june 2008: Galleria SpazioGiovani — Bari
16/19 september 2008: Biennale d'Arte Contemporanea Rocco Dicillo — Triggiano (BA)
22/23 november 2008: Meeting del Volontariato c/o Fiera del Levante — Bari
29 november/10 december 2008: Museo del Territorio — Alberobello (BA)

Official Blog: childrennomore.blogspot.com

Free entrance
Piacenza, Farnese Palace 9-10 may 2009
Hours: 10.00 — 12.00 e 15.00 — 18.00
Opening friday 8 may h. 17.00

(Source: fantasymagazine.it)

Video of the day

2009-04-19T11:18:00.000+02:00

This commercial demonstrates the unbearable trauma, sexual abused children suffer from.

Client: Dunkelziffer
Agency: Red Rabbit
Creative Director: Oliver Seltmann, Jan Fröscher
Copywriter: Joakim Reveman, Bjoern Ruehmann, Matthew Branning
Art Director: Bjoern Ruehmann, Joakim Reveman, Matthew Branning
Director: The Vikings
Production: Rokkit
Producer: Luke Jacobs
Director of Photography: Sam Brown
Editor: Paul Hardcastle
Post Production: Absolute Post London

Happy Easter!

2009-04-12T14:54:00.000+02:00

Media Quake

2009-04-08T02:42:00.000+02:00

Earthquake hits central Italy
A large earthquake of magnitude 6.3 hit central Italy in the early hours of Monday morning

L'aquila (Italy) - 6th april, 2009 - A large earthquake of magnitude 6.3 hit central Italy in the early hours of Monday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey. Buildings were reported collapsed in the centre of Aquila, capital of the Abruzzo region, 50 miles north-east of Rome and close to the quake's epicentre. According to the website of the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, police in the town, which has a population of 73,000, said people were trapped in the rubble and that many people could be injured. Residents in Rome were woken by the quake when it struck at about 3.30am local time. Rafael Abreu, of the USGS described the event as a shallow quake and said that the region had been hit by a smaller magnitude 4 quake earlier in the day. The USGS had earlier estimated that the quake measured 6.7. Abreu said residents in the area should be braced for aftershocks, adding: "This is a significant quake, a shallow quake with possibility of damage and injuries." The country's civil protection services were reportedly being called in to help residents affected by the quake and a local reporter, Nick Pisa, told Sky News that people were assembling in the streets in Rome, which is rarely affected by seismic events, braced for aftershocks. Local reports described furniture rattling and car alarms being set off. The quake was the latest and strongest in a series to hit the l'Aquila area on Sunday and Monday. Earthquakes can be particularly dangerous in parts of Italy, which is a treasure house of centuries-old buildings.

(Source: newsfood.com)

From mother to child

2009-04-05T15:11:00.000+02:00

When you think to have reached rock bottom, start to dig.

Arrested a 61 y.o. retired and two 38 and 39 y.o. cousins
The victims, 6 and 7 y.o., has already been taken from their families

Abuses on his lovers' daughters
Three arrests near Matera (Italy)

MATERA, 2d april 2009 - Another astonishing case of sexual abuse on children. The victimsa are two little girls of six and seven years old, in a situation of decay and neglicence. The police in Policoro (Italy) has arrested today a retired 61 years old man and two 38 and 29 y.o. women, cousins to each other. The man, who lives together of one of the women, had a relationship with the other too, and he sexually abuses of both of their daughters. The women was in agreement with that and they threaten the children to say nothing. Moreover, the little girls was forced to attend while adults have sex.

LThe investigation was started becaues of the report put in a claim by the social services, when the little girls were taken from their families in the last year spring. The arrests was ordered by the judge in Matera: the man is in jail, while the women are in house arrest.

(Source: repubblica.it)

The Love Train

2009-04-03T01:40:00.000+02:00

Abused at 8 years old and forced to abuse a 5 years old boy

The man was framed by the abused 10yo boy forced to abuse another 5yo child. «A logic and clear tale» says the police chief Francesco Messina who, with great embarassement (he's a dad too), explaining a story he never wanted to tell. It's a story of human insanity which involved two young children and put in jail a 42yo workman from Equador who worked like a gardener in community for difficult children. The child was 8 when everything happened. A smart boy from a family with problems. He has no father and the mother had problems with drugs in the past: now she has a work. The child frequented a religious community and became fond of Shiki Tankamash, 42 years old, workman in a factory in Arese (near Milan) who lives in Rosate. «a sort of father figure» tell vice-quaestor Alessandra Simone. Availing himself of the opportunity, the man acted a three steps plan. «Firstly, he took him to see some fishes - explains the head of police - then he started to touch him. He invited him at home saying there was his nephew and he could play with him. Finally, he abused him, threaten him to say nothing to his mother». He didn't stop here: «You have to make the same things we make with your 5 y.o. little friend». A risk he paid dearly. The younger boy told to his mother who was frightened and contacted the mother of the older one. Together, they went in the community and involed the religious men. The child (10 y.o. nowadays) was interrogated two times with a psychologist and told a story which framed the monster. Particulars confirmed by his 5yo friend. The head of police gave another significant information: «94 per cent of the abuses take place in the own houses, the others on the street.»

(Fonte: corriere.it)

Photo of the day

2009-02-22T11:54:00.001+01:00

Robin

2009-01-25T17:13:00.001+01:00

Bitter controversy for the song "Robin", included in the last album of the 74 years old italian singer Gino Paoli, famous for songs like "A tast of salt". The song talks about a 70 years old pedophile who dies in the arms of a little girl while he is abusing of her. The caress of the child seems an act of mercy which shocked the public opinion.

Robin

She has the eyes like a robin
she was an eleven years old woman
she lifted up the skirt to jump over the ditch
she was dressed in red.

While she was crossing that garden
she met a 70 years old child
he still wanted to seize everything
and he didn't know what's good and what's bad

and he catch her with spite
she found her legs up
he was searching what to do
there was fear and there was pain.

And the pain took him in the heart
like it happens with the first love
and so she takes him in her arms
with the small hands caressed his face
then he fallen asleep to rest forever
like a child tired to play.

Merry Christmas!

2008-12-25T12:29:00.000+01:00

Video of the day

2008-12-06T12:57:00.000+01:00

Child Porn

2008-12-04T00:54:00.001+01:00

ROME, 8th November, 2008 - People who use pedopornography in Italy are tripled in four years, with an increment of 188% compared with 2004. That means Italy is in fifth place for pedophilia on Internet.

Italian organization "Telefono Arcobaleno" gave 37.263 warnings, 850 a week, 122 a day, with an increment of 21,56% compared with the last year.

Germany, USA, Russia, United Kingdom, Italy, Canada, France, Japan, in other words the G8 countries - are the first eight countries who use child porn, about the three fourth of the world's exchanges.

The chart follows with Switzerland, Spain and Netherland. Telefono Arcobaleno says that "this market of horror has is focal point in Europe: over 90% of exploited children are european, 86% of child porn is in Europe, two third of clients are european".

The report is about sites with explicit contents about pedophilia and child porn.

(Source: repubblica.it)

Crucified Woman

2008-11-16T23:34:00.000+01:00

MILAN - a leaflet for the campaign to combat violence against women: a naked woman in the crucified position, with the cloth which traditionally cover Jesus' groin and the inscription: "Who pays fof men's sins?". And the subtitle: "Only 4% of the women victims of violence denounce their own persecutor. The others pay for him too". This is the proposal arrived to Milan's Publicity Office from Telefono Donna (Women Phone) for the campaign on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women which will take place in 25th november.

The request is to expose 500 leaflets with this image in public space of the municipal district of Milan. In the leaflet the woman is lying down on a sheet, two pillows behind the open arms, legs with overlapped feet, palm of the hands lying down, as pierced by nails, in the traditional christian iconografic position of Jesus.

The town councillor for the urban furniture Maurizio Cadeo, is unwilling. He explains: "I don't know if I can refuse the spaces, but I totally repel the content which offends our christian tradition. I put the political problem and I will inform the mayor: I will ask to Telefono Donna to withdrawal the leeflet".

"I will let councillor Cadeo to decide. It's difficult to give a judgement. Judgements risk to be personal. It's not easy". This is what the mayor, Letizia Moratti, says during a presentation at Fieramilanocity, to answer about the leaflet.

"I am honoured because of what the mayor said. She shows care, class and sensibility. She has my approval, she didn't fall in the trap of who wants the fight. Unfortunately others are not her same level". This is the way Stefania Bartoccetti, founder of Telefono Donna, intervenes as regard what the mayor said.

"It seems deplorable to me - Bartoccetti says - the behaves of councillor Cadeo: he just could call me to tell he doesn't agree with the image, he still didn't do that. It's not fair he accuse me to use the religious theme in an offensive way: if I didn't have faith I could not testify my effort for violence victims. The mayor understood this and this is the reason she assumed that position. I thanks for her sensibiliy for an organization which works since 16 years, with 75 thousand cases resolved".

"We never started to print 500 leaflets if we didn't have the town authorization. But we have. The councillor didn't tell me anything about his objections. I know that now and I am surprised. We already have permission for the image and the spaces and we already asked for the terms of delivery. We have 500 of them in 100x140 size. I am surprised and I think this is not the right way to proceeed: give permission and then raise objection to the press. If they said they don't agree the leaflets we didn't proceed". The campaign, Bartoccetti explains, was created by Arnord Worldwide Italy.

"For sure it's a strong image and a strong impact message - Bartoccetti says - but the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women doesn't talk about candies, and in a campaign we can't just give numbers. Our mission is to pay attention and give voice to who lives this violences, and their real-life story is : I feel myself crucified. The message we want to give is a deep suffering one: for Heaven's sake, it's not comparable with Jesus' one, but is a deep suffering anyway". No intention, Bartoccetti specify, "to contrast town administration, even if I didn't expect this reaction after a given authorization".

"We ask for the immediate withdrawal of this campaign, which pursues a fair purpose exploiting the Christianity symbol". This is the position of the leader of AN at the town hall, Carlo Fidanza. "We need more respect for our cultural heritage. They talk a lot about dignity: this leaflets contrast dignity, common sense and public morals".

"I invite Telefono Donna to work more on concrete proposals rather than aping Oliviero Toscani. That image is in bad taste". This is the way the Forza Italia's leader at the town hall, Giulio Gallera, intervenes about the leaflets. "Sensitization on violence against women has to be tackled in a way different than images which has in bad taste and offend religious. Telefono donna should work more on concrete proposals".

(Fonti: repubblica.it, affariitaliani.it)

One God

2008-10-27T01:31:00.000+01:00

UDINE - A priest and an Imam, professional men and studetns, workers and white-collars: the police says there is "a quite full cross-section of italian society" in the investigation about pedopornography; 98 people investigated, 118 computers and a lot of material seized.

The operation has been called "I West". Investigated people are between 26 and 59 years old and "are of all ranks" police chief Romeo Tuliozzi says. "There are also ministers of catholic and musulman religion". Impressive the numbers about the material seized: a lot of pc, 168 hard disk, 3.634 cd, 678 dvd, 579 videotapes and 49 pendrivers.

The investigation started 'monitoring' an internet site, where you have to pay 98 dollars to access to, and which advertize pedopornography material only. The server was in USA, while the society was in Minsk (Belarus). Contacts with U.S. Immigration Department and Internet Crimes Departmente in Minsk help to defeat the 'gang'.

In Belarus, they seized four million dollars earned with online purchases of illegal material.

In Italy, police arrested a town clerk and a worker.
In the last week police search their houses and an office where they seized a computer. Then, they arrested them.

Operation "I West" follows another one which bring other two people in jail: a shop assistant and a worker. The second one had about 50 CD and DVD and thousand illegal pictures. Both of them denies the charges.

(Source: repubblica.it)

The Death of the journalism

2008-10-24T01:03:00.000+02:00

After a long time of inactivity (I will come back with new comics soon) today I let to speak a visitor of my blog who write me about a news published here one years ago. It seems the facts reported was not exactly, or however they was mangled. It's not a newelty in the journalism nowadays: it's not my duty to make all clear, but it's fair to listen another point of view.
I also masked the names reported in the newspaper article: I think this will not steal anything to intent to report what happens around us.

You can read the original comment in the italian version of the post. I translate it here:

hi, I don't know where to begin from, they talk about my family. my mother is a prostitute from years, a life. For 4 years she prostitute herself with my sister; one year ago on the newspaper they said she was 15, but she was 17. it was not the first time in Reggio Calabria, and unfortunately the boy was not the first to go in jail, they was in France too where other boys went in jail because of them, I can send you the newspaper from Marsille.... it was the same story, I live in Italy as a nurse, I an not in contact with them, I am not able to stop them, they search for men... and that rascals goes in jail. I called her when I read the newspaper, and she told me she was not in a coffin, she was in an office with coffins all around, and she was there, not my 15yo sister. I am sorry because people read the newspaper and become sad, I am sorry to be born in this family, I am sorry for that boy's family who pay for my mother's whole life mistakes, she was always been like this, my father suffered because of her... if you want I have proof of this, I want to talk with a journalist, I can demonstrate with proof... I am worn-out, believe me! Veruska, thanks to have understrand me. I can answer to questions or show proof in any moment if you are interested in it.

Head shots

2008-07-23T00:41:00.000+02:00

ROME (21th july) - A FRENCH tourist beat his four-year-old daughter's head against the stone base of a Rome monument so hard she was left in a coma, police said yesterday. Bambino Gesu paediatric hospital said she had suffered severe head injuries and was in a coma. Her condition was last night described as "critical but stable".

Blood still stained the pavement of the Altar of the Nation hours after the girl was beaten late on Saturday night.

Carabinieri Lieutenant-Colonel Antonello Casarsa said the man, identified as Julien Monnet, 37, repeatedly struck the head of his daughter, Luna, against the stone after a traffic officer asked to see some identification.

A Canadian tourist had told police that Monnet had been acting strangely toward the girl.

"He was holding the child in an unhealthy way. She was crying and screaming," the traffic officer, Anna Esposito, later told Italian state TV. When approached Monnet quickened his step, said Ms Esposito, then said something she couldn't understand when she asked him what he was doing.

"He was holding the girl by her arm and then started striking her head against the stone," she said.

Ms Esposito said the Canadian had then grabbed the child while she struggled to hold Monnet and called for help. "He was like a furious beast," Ms Esposito said.

Monnet was then surrounded by passers-by. He tried to break free and attempted to strike his own head on the monument, but onlookers prevented him, said Lt-Col Casarsa.

He said that a search had revealed medicine in Monnet's backpack which suggested he had been undergoing psychiatric treatment.

He added that Monnet lived with the child's mother near Paris. Police contacted her on holiday in Turkey from where she was flying to Rome. She told police she believed Monnet and her daughter were still in France.

Monnet was arrested and taken to Regina Coeli jail.

The woman in jeans has cropped hair and a pained look in her eyes. There’s a big red heart on her canary yellow top. This is a thumbnail portrait of a distraught young mother determined to protect her privacy. Fabienne Verdeille, 32, is the partner of Julien Monnet, the 37-year-old Frenchman who on Saturday evening beat his daughter Luna into unconsciousness. Ms Verdeille arrived in Rome at 1 pm yesterday from Turkey, where she had been holidaying with her sister, after a stop in Paris to pick up her mother and her mother’s partner.

As she started out on her agonizing tour of Rome’s hospitals, police stations and carabinieri barracks, Ms Verdeille requested and obtained a news blackout on the incident. This means it will be difficult to reconstruct events leading up to Saturday evening’s tragedy in Piazza Venezia. Julien Monnet, the IT technician who is Ms Verdeille’s partner and Luna’s father, has been charged with attempted murder. He will be questioned by magistrates tomorrow.
“It’s a human tragedy and a family tragedy”, was all Ms Verdeille had to say to reporters. She explicitly requested that her pain should be respected, in the hope of discouraging over-inquisitive reporters and obsessive media attention. “This isn’t some housewife from the banlieues”, commented on eye witness.

It is known that Ms Verdeille confirmed to carabinieri that Mr Monnet has suffered mental disturbances and has been taking medication for some time.

(Source: ilmessaggero.it, scotsman.com, corriere.it)

Photo of the day

2008-06-15T15:54:00.001+02:00

Gheddafiction

2008-05-29T00:22:00.001+02:00

This is the last comic from my old blog, and it is related to the wrong news about Gheddafi's death, about one year ago. Another good example of journalism. Here they will come the brand new Veruska comics!

The moon's sickle in the well

2008-03-13T01:12:00.001+01:00

A comic about the two brothers from Gravina (Italy); they thought they was killed by their father, but it seems they just fallen down in a well where they died after a hour, without nobody listen their cry for help.

8 March: International Women Day

2008-03-08T01:14:00.000+01:00

Video-Lover

2008-03-06T01:27:00.000+01:00

I published this comic on 28th May, 2007 talking about people who sold naked child pictures from their mobiles in exchange for recharge.
This time is 40yo man, already sentenced for pedophilia and sexual abuses, who makes forbidden shooting of naked children having shower in a public swimming pool near Milan (Italy) with a small television camera.
Was one of the children to see and denounce him to his swimming teacher. In his house police found over one thousand photos, probably exchanged on the web.

Preteen Model

2008-02-28T02:19:00.000+01:00

He took a roll to develop to a laboratory in a mall. But when the photographer seen the photos he could only call the police. They was four shots of a 9 years old little girl.

It was the last june and the police confiscated the photos and search the apartament of the man: a 60 years old architet.
Three years and 1200 euros the conviction, thanks to a discount because of the quick proceeding. Girl's parent was also invicted: they worked for the man and they say thay didn't know anything. Police suspects thay get money to let the man to shoot the girl.
"I am an artist, I am fond of these pictures" was the excuse of the man.

(Fonte: epolis Milano)

Day Zero

2008-02-27T02:24:00.001+01:00

Because I'm busy in these days, here it is another strip from my old blog, which is about the scandal documentary "Sex Crimes & The Vatican" broadcasted during the TV show "Year Zero" by Michele Santoro. I was talking about that in the previous strip, too. It was almost a year ago: 31th May, 2007.

This is the video, in two parts. Just to don't forget:

Fresh News

2008-02-24T15:26:00.000+01:00

Another comic I published on my old blog in 21th May 2007.

Photo of the day

2008-02-22T01:42:00.000+01:00

Backstage

2008-02-21T00:01:00.000+01:00

Backstage of yesterday comic, to see Veruska before she was painted.

Futurist Action

2008-02-20T00:06:00.000+01:00

Comic strip related to the "futurist appetizer" organized by Graziano Cecchini (the one who turned the Trevi red) to protest against the tram they want to build just in front of Florence Cathedral. Such a good idea!

I prefer Graziano's idea to paint four naked model.

Gang Bang

2008-02-19T00:12:00.000+01:00

Sadly, this is a still topical comic. It was published in May, 23th 2007 and it was related to a gang rape made by a group of young boys against a girl of same age. Unfortunately, history repeats itself.

RIMINI, february 18th, 2008 - A 15 y.o. girl was raped by 10 boys she considered friends, all underage and from a "good family". The young boyfriend of her is one of them. The news come from a local newspaper in Rimini, where the rape happened.
The newspaper talks about an uncontrollable group who forced the girl to sexual acts against her will, no matter her desperate cry. The victim hidden the horror for a long time, bu at last she told everything to her parents.
The rape goes back to the last summer, and after the investigation, seven boys was already identified: many of them boasted of their "exploits".

(source: repubblica.it)

World Cat Day

2008-02-17T15:40:00.001+01:00

If you didn't already know it, today february 17th, is the World Cat Day.

Bad companies

2008-02-16T14:58:00.000+01:00

Here it is another comic who was originally presented on the old blog. I t was published in May, 18th, 2007, and it was talking about a bus hijack made by 4 robbers. Safety on the bus which run out in these days after a mortal bus accident in Milan. A crash between a bus and a tram, because of a man driving a SUV: 1 was killed and about 30 was seriously wounded. Danger is everywhere.

Show must go on!

2008-02-10T17:28:00.001+01:00

After a month of silence, I get back from this joke, looking forward to the brand new comics in the next days.

Happy New Year!

2008-01-02T23:15:00.001+01:00

Photo of the day

2007-12-28T03:05:00.001+01:00

Merry Christmas!

2007-12-25T01:24:00.000+01:00

Dangerous positions

2007-12-19T02:15:00.001+01:00

It' sad, but this old comic I published on 17th May is still true.

seXBOX

2007-12-14T19:34:00.000+01:00

At last I've found the article and the original video about Intimate Game Controller, a thesis by Jennifer Chowdhury; also some newspapers wrote about it (it seems thay nothing better to do) and I made the comic above. With a warn: if your daughter says she go to play videogames with her little boyfriend, be worry.

Censure

2007-12-12T20:49:00.001+01:00

The news is about last Saturday, but I was not apble to post it before. Daniele Luttazzi's italian satiric TV programme "Decameron" was stopped because of a quip about the journalist Giuliano Ferrara and some italian politicians.

The quip was too much vulgar, even if Luttazzi, as he already did, replied: "Satire is never vulgar, it's explicit."

With so much vulgarity in TV, it's always who said what he think who causes troubles. This is the sense of my comics, for who didn't understand it already, where censure erase the mouth; as you can say: be vulgar, but speakless.

Weeds

2007-12-12T00:00:00.000+01:00

And best wishes to the brand new project of party made by Berlusconi; we hope he finally give us back our shout "Forza Italia!"

Sketchbook

2007-12-10T00:21:00.001+01:00

This is an alternate version of the last comic I published here. I chose the other versione because this one didn't convince me totally, even if it was more similar to the original news which inspired it: a kid kept on chain on a balcony by his parents.

Children in chains

2007-12-06T00:33:00.000+01:00

The news above, who give the title to this post, was published in 22th may, but the following news are published in these days and they are all about parents, the people who should protect their children.

Berlin, 5th December 2007 - Five brides of children between 5 and 9 years old was found in hous in Darry, not far from Kiel, in the northern Germany. The police added that the mother , 31 years old, was arrested and bring in a mental hospital. No details are known, but the woman is suspected to be the murderer.

Even today, at Plauen, in Saxony (in the eastern Germany), police found the bodies of three babies on a balcony of the house of a 28y.o. woman suspected to be their murderer. She was arrested after the police found the body of a baby hidden in a suitcase. They found another one in a fridge and a third in the balcony. The woman was freed because they have no proof about the first murder. The three babies was born in 2002, 2004 and 2005.

At the end of the last month another woman, 35 years old, was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment for the murderer of her two babies, whose bodies was held in the fridge of her house in Erfurt (middle-east Germany).

(Source: repubblica.it)

Slips

2007-12-04T03:26:00.000+01:00

He kissed on the lips a 12yo girl: it's abuse, says the judge

Sentenced for sexual abuse a 53yo egyptian, a barman. The man defended himself: «My face slipped out on her face».

A kiss «planted», with closed lips, can be sexual abuse. One years' imprisonment if the «kisser» is a middle-aged barman and the kissed is a 12yo customer who is buying candies. It was 24th april of the last year when Elise, we'll call her his way, gone out shocked from the bar managed by the egyptian man. «It's a sudden and occasional fact - judge Giuseppe Gennari wrote - which has demaged the personal and sexual freedom» of the girl.

(Source: Epolis Milano)

Picked on

2007-12-02T19:06:00.000+01:00

"Professor, how is my daughter getting on?" And he put the pistol on the table

The father of a student after he entered the classroom and once came face to face with the professor, he pulled out a pistol from the pocket and has rests with nonchalance on the table

Florence, 29 November 2007 - The room is small. Here the professor receives alternately parents of pupils for talks on the educational achievement of children. It is the dad of a shaky performance by the student. The door closes behind the two. Expatriates face to face by unforeseen developments. It happens, in fact, that the teacher would not have ever imagined. The man spoke, and meanwhile slip the pistol from the pocket. He does it with nonchalance, as if, instead of a weapon, were a bunch of keys, a pen, a packet of cigarettes. Meanwhile talks, said yes, in short, that his daughter is not so bad, that the first professor picked her on, which he knows that the teacher home address.

What has the teacher tried in those interminable minute interview is not know. The fact is that without getting upset, the professor was able to finalize the meeting, as long as the parent has not decided about getting pistol into the pocket and go on.
"The episode has not shaken that much teacher, I told my deputy that the professor has confided" swears the headmaster of a school in the area of care. But it is inevitable that quell'insolita hours of receipt and quell'inusuale behavior of the parent, could not stay inside the business school.
This fact was reported to law enforcement agencies. And in the hours after the parent was searched at his home. At home they found two scacciacani. It ends here. The opening of an investigation and criminal proceedings are due acts.

It was one week ago Tuesday. Since then, and for another week, the girl was no longer seen at school, after them while the voices of a voluntary transfer to another school. Yesterday, however, the student has returned regularly in the classroom. "Although the professor is not the reason was particularly shaken the headmaster insists he still considered appropriate that what happened was brought to the attention of investigators. In the coming days about this event will be held a meeting of all teachers.

(Source: repubblica.it)

Better give than get

2007-11-30T00:03:00.000+01:00

Pedophilia in seminary: priest arrested

Police arrested a priest in Brescia, Italy. He's Marco Baresi, assistant director of seminary in Brescia accused of pedophilia. Abuses on 14y.o. seminarist and possession of pedo-pornographic material. Bishop Monari and his assitant Beschi, was grieved "He's well known and esteemed. The tragedy of the victim of abuses can't be ignored, especially if they involve priests, but it's important to consider the delicacy of the situation of who is accused of this facts and is innocent.".

(Fonte: Epolis Milano)

I agree with Bishop Monari and, even if I report the news, I'd like to remember to wait investigation's results. This news remember me the case of Don Marco Dessi, the missionary sentenced in 24th May for the abuses against the orphans he should assist in Nicaragua. Here it is the comic strip in which I was bitterly ironic about his conviction.

The real face of Baby Grace

2007-11-29T01:14:00.000+01:00

After a month of investigation, this is the real face of "Baby Grace", as the police has called the child body found 29th october on a beach in Galveston, Texas. On the left, the identikit realized by the police trying to identify the little girl.
Her real name is Riley Ann Sawyer. They hitted her with a belt, hold her underwater, trhow on the floor and dragged around the room, the little blonde head knocking everywhere. To tell these minute details is her mother, Kimberly Dawn Trenor, which is accused with her husband Royce Clyde Zeigler, stepfather of Riley.
“In twenty years I have seen many cases which was able to break your heart”, sheriff Ray Tuttoilmondo says “but I think this case will remain in our hearts forever”.
It will probably remain in our mind for the cruetly of the murderers: the body of the little girl was held in a magazine for two months, before to put in a plastic container and throw in th sea. Police are not sure about the cause of the death, but they find at least three fractures in the head.
Is not clear the role of her husband: to cover the murder, he probably forged documents in which the Ohio Department of Children’s Service, brought away the child in 24th July, to subtract her from abuses in the family.

(Source: La Stampa)

Texas is again protagonist, six months later this comic strip, I realized reading the news about a mother which hanged herself with her four daughters.

Educator under accusation

2007-11-26T22:19:00.000+01:00

Educator for problem kids under accusation for pedophilia
Victims are two 12yo girls. One with srious mental illness.

A voluntary educator for problem kids. He's a 65yo ex-banker who voluntary worked in a school. A granpa with long handsm now under accusation for sexual abuses after the compliant of a 12yo girl.

"Anna", we call her this way, told to be touched by the old man, and also a school-pal of her, with serious mental illness. They also refer about indecent words told to another young boy. Everything started in 2005 with the compliant from Anna and her school which started an internal investigation. Anna's story was confirmed during the interrogation, when the girl told about the abuses. A more difficult experience for the other child who told about her and her hobbies, but was blocked when she had to talk about the man and what he did to her. The judge Vincenzo Tutinelli will decide if this will be a prove against the old man who denies any charge.
The sure thing is abuses in places like schools churches and gyms are on the increase. Every year we count about 100 new cases. Sometimes schools are useful to investigation, sometimes internal investigations demage police work.

(Source: Epolis Milano)

Short memories

2007-11-26T21:52:00.001+01:00

The last 16th May, I published this strip about the presumed abuses in a school in Rignano Flaminio. Six monhs later, new impulse to the investigation is coming from the web, after some suspects was freed and a book, "I have seen the black man" by journalist Claudio Cerasa, which tells about this case so complicated and delicate. Thay are still discussing if the abuses are real or if the testimony of the children was manipulated by their alarmist parents. As I fear in my strip, in the meanwhile, people have forgotten. Someone else probably not.

Family Gay

2007-11-25T00:29:00.000+01:00

Today there was the march to fight violence against women; march which is often the only weapon of citizens to make their voices heard on issues that are close to their heart. It was also the case of "Family Day", the march on the values of family who did not wish to involve gay couples; I underlined this situation in this strip published on May, 12th, on the old blog.

Simply

2007-11-24T14:42:00.000+01:00

That child has lost everything, books and shoes
Don Giovanni D'Ercole - Priest, charitable institution Don Orione

The face of a woman struck by a murderous hand and a written: "if it were your mother, your sister or your daughter ... Expel the Roma. Immediately!" What more effective way of building people distrust, and why not hatred. This billboard advertising that has invaded the city of Rome, I thought when ruspe the Municipality have destroyed the barracks of a Romanian camp on the outskirts of Rome, near the place where he was killed by a Romanian woman. Indeed, it was after that dramatic episode that moved quickly across the government, the City and the press. Via the Romanians. I said that I thought the billboard were destroyed because among other shacks of poor families Romanian and honest. He came back from school a child that I know well and saw her jump to the air shed. He lost everything including school textbooks and shoes to play football in our team "ercolini". You should see the face of that child: it could be your son! It could be your house! His mother works well and so the father: honest fellow Europeans, but with 500 euros per month can afford only a shack. There are so honest Romanians and Romanians murderers. As in Italy and elsewhere in the world. It is difficult to reconcile legality and solidarity, but our experience has shown that only through dialogue and the commitment to safeguard the rule of law and to promote solidarity is the key to creating a future of peace. These children will be adults of Italy. What they say? What They learn from us? Let's sow the love to reap the peace.

(Source: Epolis Milano)

Stop violence against women

2007-11-23T22:45:00.000+01:00

Italian ministers Barbara Pollastrini, Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio and Paolo Ferrero will join tomorrow to a march in Rome to stop violence against women. Today, they came in press room with a white ribbon (symbol of fight of violence against women). Sunday, november 25th will be the International Day for the elimination of violence against women.

(Source: repubblica.it)

Will-o'-the-wisp

2007-11-23T19:29:00.000+01:00

Today I am talking about a news of some days ago in Italy. Just to remember these incident, which are become frequent. Another one in Livorno, in august.

4y.o. Rom child die in a blaze
The father saves the other two brothers

Bologna, November, 19th, 2007 - Even the parents was burnt fighting with the fire to save their children. Only the youngest died. The blaze probably started from a stove they use to warm themself. the two burnt children was brought to a Hospital in Parma. Dog unit on place, too.

(Source: Quotidiano.net)

Heidi with no pants

2007-11-23T00:21:00.001+01:00

Turkish censorship also hit Heidi, Clara e Mrs. Seseman, her granny. This last and Mrs. Rottermayer wear a veil, while Heidi has a longer dress, because in the original version, in her raids on the mountain, she showed her pants. The decision aroused bitter controversy.

In the 100 books raccomended by the Culture Ministry in Ankara, there is Johanna Spyri's book, also became a success because of the japanese cartoon (which is now 30), but the drawings was modified.

The book published by the publishing house Karanfil aroused bitter controversy with who is afraid of an "Islamization" of education. The ministry clarified that it's an initiative of the publisher. "Heidi was a child with black hair and red cheek like tomatoes. She had a red blouse, a pink skirt and a big ass. When she ran down the mountain, the skirt rised up over her head and we can see her white pants. She is probably the first cartoon character who we saw the pants".

This is the description of Heidi in the turkish site about "cartoon of our chidlhood", as the spanish newspaper El Mundo says, underlining that now turkish cildren "will never see Heidi's pants anymore", at last not in the books raccomandd by the Ministry. As the president of teacher union Alaadin Dincer says, the ministry has also increased controls and "opened the path to scholar books distortion, as we can see in Heidi's case".

(Source: Tgcom)

Death becomes her

2007-11-21T19:10:00.000+01:00

Six months ago I published this comic strip; I repropose it now, with the news which inspired it.

There is everything in this news: pedophilia, prostitution and also necrophilia. If you think this last one is a niche (or loculos) phenomenon, here it is a Google Trends graphics, which compare how much they talk on web about two or more terms; as you can see the difference is not so high. The graphics for Italy has a higher difference: we have to understand if it's because we don't speak too much about necrophilia or we speak to much about pedophilia.

Reggio Calabria, May, 23th 2007 - Two Romanian immigrant was arrested by police because they forced a woman and her 15 y.o. daughter to be prostitute. They are two 33 e 35 y.o. who live in town. The arrest was convalidated by the substitute attorney Francesco Mollace. The 40 y.o. womand and her 15 y.o. daughter was slaved and forced to be prostitute. M. A., 33 y.o., and M. S., 35 y.o., who lived in a hotel in Reggio Calabria, are now in jail. The first is also accused to have forced the 15 y.o. girl and hitted her. The story is also more perverse than the usual. The young girl was forced to have sex in three different coffins with two undertakers and other middle-aged men. The girl, hitted many times when she tried to rebel, was forced to have sex with men of different classes: doctors, lawyers, students, who paid even 300 euros to have sex with her. The woman and the girl will probably have a work now.

(Source: Il Giornale di Calabria)

Cover yourself!

2007-11-21T01:15:00.000+01:00

Rome, november, 17th - He shot with an air rifle from a window and hit a 10yo boy who was walking on the street. The child was just slightly injured because of the heavy jacket he was wearing. It happened this morning in Rome. Arrived on place, policemen locate where the bullets was coming from. In the house, they found an air rifle, due boxes of bullets, a stick with a blade inside, and a knife. The man, a 42yo office-worker with clean record, didn't put up resistance and he was bring to the police station.

(Source: Adnkronos)

Photo of the day

2007-11-20T10:28:00.000+01:00

Postwar: Bosnian economy still in trouble

Forty percent of the bosnian population is unemployed and who is working draws his salary after months

All the suffering of bosnian people is in the eyes of this young girl, forced to pick coal in a dump and then sell it in a market in Banovici, 70 kilometers from Sarajevo. The great bosnian politic crisis, broke out after balcanian war 12 years ago, pushed up the price of necessaries. People difficulties are everyday occurrences. Unemployment has reached 40 percent and the lucky ones who has a job must do the best they can to survive, because salary are often paid after months.

(Source: EPolis Milano)

Lost sheeps

2007-11-19T23:31:00.000+01:00

Today a newspaper carries the news about the torchlight procession in Milan, made to remember all the children victim of abuses and violence. The Archbishop of Milan, Dionigi Tettamanzi, assailed against the abuses, remembering also pedophilia cases in the Church.
The following comic strip is the first of three I realized about the scandals which hit the Vatican, guilty to have hidden the news about them. We hope in the future the Church will start to sentence its own priests.

Lazy Sunday

2007-11-18T22:18:00.000+01:00

Because of the accident (don't call it murder, they're still investigating on it) to a soccer supporter and the following protest (don't call it vandalism) on some fields, the soccer in Italy was stopped for one week. Just in theory, because it was already stopped because of the match with Scotland; a winning match which will surely delete al this mess from our minds dimmed by soccer.
What did you do this sunday?

Parascolastic activities

2007-11-17T14:43:00.000+01:00

May, 1th, 2007 - We started this way, in a time with news about abuses in a classroom and mortal school bus crash. It was not a great time and Veruska was looking at the future with sadness.

Veruska is back!

2007-11-17T14:40:00.000+01:00

After some months of absence, Veruska comes back to see the world with her innocent and ironic eyes.
I don't know how often I will update the blog, which will also show the old comic strips already published in the old version.