Benevento, honorary deputy prosecutor and cardiologist arrested for sexual assault. Fake medical visits in hospital
A cardiologistserving in a hospital in Beneventoand a honorary deputy prosecutorat the time of the events in service at the Lecce Prosecutor’s Office, ended up at under house arrest on charges of gang sexual assault aggravated by the circumstance of having been carried out by a public official in the exercise of his functions: during apparent medical visits they would have abused some unaware patients then filmed everything with photos and videos. Ansa reports it.
The financiers of the Economic and Financial Police Unit-Gico of Lecce have executed an order issued by the Court of Review of Naples, on an appeal brought by the Benevento Prosecutor’s Office, confirmed by the Court of Cassation following a declaration of inadmissibility of the appeal brought by the interested parties. The doctor from Benevento, “with the active participation of the co-worker, qualified as a colleague of the cardiologist – explains the prosecutor of Benevento, Aldo Policastro – during apparent cardiological medical examinations he carried out highly intrusive acts in the sexual freedom of the unsuspecting patients” with abuse and the video recording, by both, of what was happening.
They were subjected a lawyer from the province of Taranto is under house arrest, Antonio Zito58 years old, at the time of the events honorary deputy prosecutor in service to the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the court of Lecce, and a cardiologist doctor on duty in a hospital in Benevento, John Glass, aged 60. They are responsible for aggravated group sexual violence for having abused, according to what the investigators claim, the patients during fake medical visits to which the cardiologist invited his lawyer friend to participate by introducing him as his assistant.
The Benevento Prosecutor’s Office had already requested the arrest of the two suspects in 2023, which was then denied by the investigating judge. The precautionary measures arise from a ruling by the Court of Cassation which declared the decision of the review court last February accepting the appeal of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Benevento to be enforceable.
The unaware patientsaccording to investigations by the Fiamme Gialle, they would have been anesthetized and subjected to abuse and then filmed by the two men in turn. The images were spread on a WhatsApp group: for this reason the two arrested must also answer for the illicit diffusion of sexually suggestive images and videos. Vetrone scheduled the visits and contacted his lawyer friend, who left Pulsano for Benevento to take part wearing a white coat and posing as a doctor. For him the accusation is also of abusive practice of the medical profession.
From the mobile phones and telematic devices seized by the financiers of the Economic-Financial Police Unit of Lecce (which was investigating Zito for other alleged crimes) they would be further elements of guilt emerged. After learning of the investigation, Zito suspended himself, while Vetrone regularly carried out his duties in the hospital.
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