Francesca Ghio, councilor of the city council of the Italian city of Genoa (northwest), has denounced during a plenary session the rape she suffered when she was 12 years old, a statement for which the Prosecutor’s Office opened an investigation this Wednesday. “I was 12 years old when I was physically and psychologically raped within the walls of my house repeatedly for months by a man I trusted and who no one would have suspected was a monster“, confessed from her seat the councilor, from the Rossoverde (Rojoverde) party.
Ghio, currently 31 years old, targeted a “Genoese leader, a brave boy of yours,” he said from his bench, without giving more details about the identity of his alleged attacker. “He told me that I had to shut upwhich should be our secret. I had to swear that I wouldn’t tell anyone anything while I submitted to their torture. The dominance of the man, the father, my mind and my body under his authority, the emblem of patriarchy,” she denounced. The councilor, alluding to the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, denounced that “no one” told her that “I could talk about it.”
“No one asked me why I had become an introvert. suddenly, although she had never been a silent girl. This society does not have time or space to take care of people, it moves forward, builds dams and streets, moves towards progress and new promises, moves forward forgetting to protect and care for the precious good of life, and people. they are becoming less importantabandoned,” he lamented.
Ghio, who assured that he has never reported these events, said that society “has a problem” in handling these types of problems. A day later, the Genoa Prosecutor’s Office opened an investigation for an alleged crime of aggravated sexual violence, according to Italian media.