Six teenagers have been arrested in Caivano, in the Italian province of Naples, for rape two 13 year old girls, cousins ​​to each other. This is the second group rape that has come to light in Italy in recent days after the commotion it caused in the country another case occurred in Palermo.

The events occurred in early July, when the girls were taken to a shed in the Parque Verde de Caivano, a social housing complex known for being a focus of drug trafficking, where they were allegedly assaulted by those now detained, with ages similar to those of his victims, according to the local newspaper ‘Il Mattino’.

However, it was not until August that the parents of the minors filed a complaint and the police investigation began, which They identified the perpetrators and arrested them.while they analyze their phones to try to reconstruct the exact sequence of events.

The two minors have been transferred to the house of a relative far from Parque Verde, the same place where in 2016 little six-year-old Fortuna Loffredo was raped and murdered in a case that impacted the transalpine country.

The case of the ‘Palermo Herd’

This new case of group rape was also known shortly after the arrest in Palermo of seven young men for raping a 19-year-old girl. Among them, there are a minor that he had been released but was arrested again after boasting about his situation on the TikTok social network. The rest of the defendants have denounced threats inside the prison where they await their trial and a very tense climate with the rest of the inmates and have been transferred to other centers in Sicily.

This first group rape took place on the night of July 7 in the center of the Sicilian capital, Palermo, when seven young people, the oldest 22 years old and one of them a minor, they got the victim drunk to take her to a secluded area and rape her in turns.

The case has shocked the country and the authorities have asked the Telegram platform and users not to disclose the video of the attack, while the vice president, the far-right Matteo Salvini, has announced that he will present a bill to apply chemical castration to the rapists. “If you rape a woman or a child, obviously you have a problem: jail time is not enough. You deserve to be cured. Period,” she asserted.