Italy: Supreme court rejects ethnic-religious argument for child abuse

Italy: Supreme court rejects ethnic-religious argument for child abuse

Via ANSA:
The Italian Supreme Court on Friday upheld a sentence for abuse and aggravated assault by a Moroccan father against his 12-year-old daughter.

Defense lawyers maintained that the father, who allegedly beat his daughter with a broom handle for "corrective" purposes after she could not properly recite the Koran, did so because of "cultural" reasons and should be given a lighter sentence accordingly.

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