The 2017 ruling was revealed on Friday when the Italian supreme court overturned it and ordered a retrial.
The city of Ancona lies on Italy's Adriatic coast. By Emily Tamkin Emily Tamkin Foreign affairs Email Bio Follow March 12 at 10:51 AM An Italian appeals court — a panel of three female jurists — acquitted two men of rape in 2017, in part because the judges agreed with the defendants’ argument that the victim looked like a man and therefore they could not have been attracted to her. Now that ruling has been overturned and a retrial has been ordered.
The case dates to 2015, when a 22-year-old woman reported that she had been attacked. Her injuries were, according to doctors, consistent with rape, and that her blood showed a high level of benzodiazepines, a type of tranquilizer, seemingly backing up her lawyer’s claim that her drinks had been spiked at a bar after an evening class. In 2016, the men were convicted.
The woman was not present at the appeals court hearing because she had returned to her native Peru. The woman’s lawyer, however, called the judges’ reasoning “disgusting,” and filed an appeal to the supreme court.
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