In Italy, groping children is fine if it's under ten seconds.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66174352

Get your hands off girls and keep them to yourself you fucking fucks. The man should be in prison. And sack the judge.

I want to say how disgusted l am by this but it is hard to put into words. I'm just spitting disbelief at this point.

At my house we have a three-second rule in the kitchen for food that falls on the floor. Dropped a lovely bit of something? Call out "three second rule!" and all's fair (mostly). Three times as long and more before a grope is recognised as a grope though. Who is shown more respect-- the girls or the floor germs?

I know. I'm not sure if I'm more disgusted by the 60 year old man putting his hands down a girl's clothing or the judge for saying it was fine.

I remember my trips to Italy decades ago and the men were rampant. I had hoped that things had moved on. It is utterly pathetic that this judge is living in the dark ages. I hope there is an appeal.

Words fail me. What a ridiculous and disgusting ruling.

I would have said it's just men looking after each other, they are equally disgusting, but the judge is in a position of responsibility and trust.

What the actual heck? The school caretaker groped a school student and pulled down her trousers, in school, and he was acquitted??? What?

If her father punched him in the face for less than 10 seconds the that wouldn’t be physical assault either then.

Not surprising things like this happen though in out of date, backwards countries with old men in positions of power.

Absolutely disgusting behaviour from the judge (and, of course, from the caretaker).

Only good thing is that according to the article, there's been a lot of outrage and a huge backlash.
Especially good that a lot of Italian men are also saying that it's unacceptable.

He's just been told he's free to do it to all the other girls at that school.

That is utterly disgusting. I assume it's also okay for all the girls and female teachers in the school to preemptively kick him in the balls any time they see him in order to stay safe. That would come in well under 10 seconds.

Grim

is this the face Italy wants to show to the world?

I'd be requesting an investigation into that judge. What a warped sense of justice. Are you telling me the perverted caretaker is still working at the school too? That just cannot be right. Surely all parents will strongly object as their children are at risk.

I just spent ten seconds stroking my own arm.

That's a very long time.

And if it was elsewhere on my body and it was a man's hand second No. 1 is one second too long.

As noted upthread, there has been a huge furore in response. Which is a bit heartening.

Terrifying that men like this are in the judiciary in any country.

Dirty fucker says it's okay to be a dirty fucker,what a surprise.

Ugh, I remember my friends and I being groped by Italian men in a disco we went to in Greece when we were fourteen or fifteen. So grim.

Bloody hell. Groping is always less than ten seconds in my experience. This is fucking grim

He killed him with a gunshot to the head, but it lasted less than 10 second so it's okay.

This really is truly disgusting, I hope the backlash gives the young girl confidence to appeal and I hope the judge gets sacked.

I've been groped a number of times when I was a young woman in pubs and clubs, as have most others on here I'm sure.

It was never anywhere near as long as 10 seconds.

It's an atrocious verdict.

The fucking caretaker pulled her trousers down, shoced his hand inside her knickers, and lifted her up by that hand, bruising her vulva, before mocking her that it was only a joke. A sentiment that the judge has upheld.

I despair. That blatant, that brutal a sexual abuse, and a fucking judge brushes it off as "clearly just a joke."

For fucks sake.

The pliers were only clamped around his balls for 10 seconds. They were cut clean off but not to worry.

The top sprinters can do 100m in less than 10 seconds. Maybe that race shouldn't exist as its too fast.

@mrshenny right??

It makes me want to train teenage girls to punch first and ask questions later. After all, a punch lasts for less than a second, and is clearly just a joke in response.

I hope he's at least be sacked!!

Outrageous. The judge should lose his job for this. As should the caretaker (if not already). A brutal sexual assault. Agree with the analogies with punching and shooting.

Stabbing someone in the penis would only take a couple of seconds.