An alleged fake gynaecologist and his male accomplice reportedly gang raped several women after luring them to bogus examinations which they ‘filmed and uploaded to porn sites’.
The disturbing case has sent shockwaves through Milan, Italy, after a 71-year-old, and his partner, a 42-year-old, were arrested on charges of sexual abuse. The pair are now under house arrest, according to local reports.
Two 25-year-old women, one from Turin and the other from Bergamo, spoke out after responding to an online advert for a medical clinic claiming to look for girls to feature in promotional videos on health and wellness.
After arriving in Milan for a meeting regarding the adverts, the young women were then reportedly harassed by the two older men pretending to be doctors.
Their testimonies led to Italian police investigating the alleged perpetrators – the elderly retired radiologist from Como and the self-proclaimed filmmaker from Venice.
The investigators believe that since 2016, the two men lured several women, using the excuse of promotional videos to shoot explicit and abusive content.
It was advertised that the women would act as extras in medical-scientific information films for professionals, but ultimately, it is said, the men were going on to distribute the footage on pornographic websites.
Out of the 135 women who got in touch with the pair, six physically visited the fake clinic where they were reportedly abused in a Milan apartment, which the men presented as the Centro Clinica Italia clinic.
Two 25-year-old women, one from Turin and the other from Bergamo, spoke out after responding to an online advert for a medical clinic claiming to look for girls to feature in promotional videos on health and wellness
An investigation suggests that since 2016, the two men allegedly lured several women, using the excuse of promotional videos to shoot explicit and abusive content
Out of the 135 women who got in touch with the men, six physically visited the fake clinic where they were reportedly abused in a Milan apartment. Pictured: File photo of Milan, Italy
Some girls, ‘as soon as they understood the type of medical visit, had firmly refused,’ investigating judge Mattia Fiorentini said.
But authorities fear the number of victims may increase as the investigations continue.
According to local reports, the women – who were allegedly paid from £125 to £420 – did not realise where the films were being as the men used medical and electronic equipment on them during their ‘examinations’.
Fiorentini stressed that the pair acted in a ‘serial manner’ after posing as women in email communications, promising the presence of female doctors to their victims.
The initial trick was to promise an appointment with a doctor who would then be replaced at the last minute by the 71-year-old.
The girls were ‘lured with deception’, the judge added, as ‘the two men revealed themselves in the invitation emails with female personal details’ and said there would be female doctors in the clinic.
Fiorentini said the retired doctor and his accomplice who filmed the videos acted ‘in a serial manner, for years, to lure girls and induce them to film, without their knowledge, pornographic videos’.
He added that for the other women: ‘It cannot be excluded that the continuation of the contacts may have occurred with other communication systems’.
