Ua story with a happy ending. We need it, in an era in which everything seems to be turning towards the negative. He wanted to tell it Massimo Gramellini a In other wordson La7. The journalist concluded the broadcast with his usual “Good night”which does not put you to sleep, but awakens your conscience. In the January 18 episode, Gramellini talked about Anna and a domestic violence story which is transformed, thanks to the courage of a little girl and the timely intervention of the school, into an example of justice that works.
Anna’s story told by Massimo Gramellini
Anna is 13 years old and a life too heavy to bear. She collapsed in class, exhausted by months of terror. When she woke up, she couldn’t move her legs. The doctors find nothing physical: the problem is elsewhere, inside his head, oppressed by nightmares experienced with open eyes. Thanks toa teacher’s intuitionAnna is directed toschool psychology clinicwhere he breaks the silence and tells the daily horror. «Every night my father walks around the house with knives. He tells how he will kill my mother. I hear the footsteps, the sound of metal. I can’t sleep anymore.”
A quick investigation and incisive justice
Anna’s story becomes the key to a quick investigation. The arrest of the father arrives in a few days; the two-year sentencesubject to compulsory attendance at a center for violent men, is issued in record time. There motherafter years of physical and psychological abuse, it is finally free. He has rebuilt a life for himself and his two daughtersworking as a social-health worker. But the real engine of change was Anna, capable of transforming her pain into a detailed and courageous complaint.
The decisive role of the school
Behind Anna’s rebirth there is a silent but crucial gesture: the teacher’s attention who understood that that illness hid profound suffering. According to the lawyer Isabella Ferretti, the school and judicial system worked: «The teacher was very good at making her confide. It’s rare that everything goes so smoothly,” he reports The Press. Today Anna and her family are safean unexpected happy ending for those who experience the horror of domestic violence.
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