Outrage in Italy Mounts After Seven Egyptian Migrants Accused of Gang-Raping 13-Year-Old Girl in Sicily

The girl’s boyfriend was reportedly forced to watch as two of the migrants assaulted her.

AP/Francisco Seco
Migrants in the Mediterranean Sea south of the Italian island of Lampedusa on August 11, 2022. AP/Francisco Seco

Italian officials are decrying an alleged rape by seven Egyptian migrants of a 13-year-old Italian girl in Sicily. The young girl’s boyfriend was reportedly forced to watch as two of the migrants assaulted her. 

“I beg you, I beg you, don’t hurt me, let me go,” the girl, who has not been identified, said as she was being attacked according to Giornale di Sicilia, a local newspaper. She was allegedly attacked in a public restroom at the seaside town of Catania on the southeastern coast of the island. 

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