A 16-year-old boy was allegedly raped and tortured after being kidnapped and thrown into the basement of a council house.
The teenager was allegedly held in a municipal house in Quarto Oggiaro, a district of the northern Italian city of Milan, during the night of December 9-10 after being kidnapped.
The boy, who supposedly has a cognitive deficit, was raped and tortured in the basement of the house, Italian newspaper Corriere della Serra information.
Police later found him wandering the street half naked with visible wounds on his body, and he reportedly told officers that he had been abused throughout the night.
Deputy prosecutors Letizia Mannella and Ilaria Perinu said they believe the boy had been tortured. They said what the boy allegedly went through was like a “horror movie” and substituted “human degradation.”
The 16-year-old gave them the name of the Instagram account of a 14-year-old boy allegedly involved in the assault, which helped investigators locate him and the other alleged perpetrator.
The 14-year-old boy and a 44-year-old man were arrested just a few hours after the alleged victim was found.
Police found images of the alleged rape and torture on the mobile phone of one of the two suspects, according to local media.
The teenager was allegedly held in a council house in Quarto Oggiaro, in the northern Italian city of Milan, during the night of December 9-10 after being kidnapped.
The boy, who supposedly has a cognitive deficit, was raped and tortured in the basement of the house, Italian newspaper Corriere della Serra reports. He was later found by police wandering the street half naked and with visible wounds on his body, and allegedly told officers that he had been abused all night (file image)
They have been accused of sexual violence, kidnapping, assault, production of child pornography and theft of the child’s phone.
Investigators are reportedly trying to determine if the boy was assaulted in the 44-year-old man’s apartment or the 14-year-old man’s apartment. The basement where the attack supposedly took place is located in the same municipal house as the man’s apartment.
It is unclear if the two teens knew each other before the attack.
The boy has been in hospital since the alleged attack and has not yet been questioned.
Residents of the Milan district where the boy was found reportedly attempted to lynch the alleged perpetrators out of anger, local media report.
The man and boy are due in court on Thursday.