A shocking story of betrayal and abuse has ended up at the doors of the Lecce Prosecutor's Office in Italy.
A 30-year-old woman is being investigated for seduction of minors, after she is accused of sending messages with purely erotic content to her lover's son, local media report.
What started as a street rumor in a small village in Salento turned into a criminal case when the 16-year-old, under high psychological pressure, decided to confess to his mother. He handed her the phone, which showed shocking conversations with the woman his father had been keeping as a lover for a long time.
"Will you have sex with me?" and "Let's meet and do those beautiful things that men and women do together, but don't tell dad," were just some of the 30-year-old's requests to the teenager.
In the small municipality where the protagonists lived, the father's extramarital affair was a "public secret." Residents were content with whispering behind the windows and disapproving glances on the streets of the center, but no one imagined that the woman's courage would reach the point of attempting to seduce her partner's son.
The explosion of this "bomb" within the family has brought irreversible consequences. The woman (the mother of the 16-year-old), as soon as she discovered the messages last November, immediately filed for divorce.
On the other hand, the husband has left the house and, paradoxically, has gone to live with the very 30-year-old who tried to seduce his son.
The Lecce prosecutor's office has begun work to prove the validity of the accusations. An expert in the field is checking phones and conversations on social networks to confirm the authenticity of the messages. People who were aware of the 30-year-old's relationship and behavior are being questioned. "The boy was in obvious distress and handing the phone over to his mother was his last act of defense against a situation he could no longer manage," reports La Repubblica.