Turin, forced by the mother to kneel on the chickpeas for a bad vote. The story of a young victim of mistreatment: “He told me he would do better to abort”

For years he has experienced a domestic nightmare made of humiliations, mistreatment, psychological violence and corporal punishments. The obsession of a mother for school perfection has turned into a nightmare for her daughter, who since elementary school she was forced to undergo inhuman punishmentshow to kneel for hours on chickpeas or walnut shells.

The girl, today 23 years old, found the courage to tell her story and to report her mothera woman of Romanian origin, who for 14 years has exercised total control over her, with rigid and often brutal educational methods. The case ended up in court and led to Send of the woman to two years of imprisonmentpenalty confirmed on appeal in recent days.

A childhood marked by violence and punishments

The young woman retraced the years of childhood and adolescence before the judges spent under the yoke of a despotic and violent mother. “At the time I attended elementary school, I always had to take maximum votes otherwise I was punished. I remember that I remained in the entrance of the house, On knees in a newspaper sprinkled with rice or walnut shells. He left me there until I was doing it anymore: The signs remained for days. But I didn’t show them to anyone, I was afraid that Mom would pass trouble, “said the girl in the classroom.

Over time, the mother has changed its punitive strategies, avoiding beatings in order not to leave evident signs, but intensifying insults and psychological manipulation. “He said he couldn’t beat me more because the signs would see each other. At that time He repeated that I was worth nothing, that I was a crap of daughter and that he would better not to put myself in the world».

Total control and deprivation of freedom

The girl told how she was forbidden to attend her friends and receive them at home. And he reported an emblematic episode: “I had invited a partner to play, when my mother discovered it wanted the tablet password to read my secret diary. Frightened, I gave it to him and she He took my head and slammed it on the tablet, splitting the glass».

The mother kept her constantly under control, forcing her to send messages with photos to demonstrate where she was. But the already worn -out report will degenerate further in 2020, during the pandemic, when the girl started working as a waitress. «It was an insult for her, it is as if I had told her that she was not able to keep me. He decided that I had to pay half of the rent and that I could only eat what I had bought myself».

The expulsion of the house and the complaint

On January 20, 2021 he marked the turning point. After the umpteenth quarrel, the mother drove her home with an ultimatum: «You closed with me. I give you a minute to make a phone call and ask someone to help you». Before leaving at home, the girl was forced to sign a manuscript in which she committed to “not asking for maintenance and not to defame her mother with friends and relatives”.

He rested few clothes in a suitcase and went down to the street, where he remained for two hours waiting for his boyfriend and an ex -teacher who temporarily hosted her. It was precisely the latter who convinced her to turn to the police, starting the investigation that would then lead to the mother’s sentence. “I don’t want me to go to jail, but only that you let me live quiet“, The girl said in court.

During the trial, the woman tried to discredit her daughter, but the judges rejected her justifications, highlighting in the sentence how the defendant “tried to put the victim in a bad light” with pretexts “unsuitable to justify his conduct” . Now, after years of mistreatment and suffering, the girl can finally look to the future with the hope of a life free from terror and violence.