Italy: father beats and threatens adult lesbian daughter

Kicks, fists and hands to the throat. The victim is a 29 year old woman from Bari. The aggressor her father, a well-known 67-year-old fisherman from Barivecchia. On several occasions the woman has decided not to report her father for fear that his anger could become more violent. The last beating of 12 November was extremely violent. … He took her by the neck and started to abuse her, accusing her of being a “layabout lesbian”. The woman, who has problems with epilepsy, tried unsuccessfully to free herself from the man’s grip. The father, continuing to abuse her her, is alleged to have punched her in the face, and then kicked her body before slamming her head several times against the the living room wall.
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When the violence ended, her father threatened her by saying that in future he would kill her with a bat or knife. The man’s words…