A
court in Milan on Monday found former Prime Minister Silvio
Berlusconi guilty of paying for sex with a minor and abusing his
office to cover it up, handing him a seven-year jail sentence and
banning him from public office for life.
Mr.
Berlusconi waited more than three hours before posting his
disappointment on his Facebook page. “I was really convinced that
they would acquit me, because it was impossible to condemn me based
on the facts,” Mr. Berlusconi wrote.
“Instead
they issued an incredible verdict, of untold violence that has never
been seen before, in order to eliminate me from the political life of
this country. Not only is this a page of bad justice, but it is an
offense to all those Italians who believed in me, and trusted my
commitment toward this country. But I, once again, mean to resist
against this persecution because I am absolutely innocent and I don’t
want to abandon my battle to make Italy a free and just country.”
The
trial, involving a then under-age woman named Karima El-Mahroug,
nicknamed “Ruby Heart-Stealer,” had become the most personal, and
tawdry, of Mr. Berlusconi’s many legal sagas. The three presiding
judges, all women, handed Mr. Berlusconi a seven-year sentence,
tougher than the six years that prosecutors had requested.
I don't understand this guy, why does young prostitutes or sorry, escort as they are sometimes called excites him. He was a president for heaven sake at the time of this incident. Man, have some dignity for the office please.
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