Valentino Talluto: the HIV-positive painter sent back for trial, risks 20 years

• Rome, arrested HIV positive who wanted unprotected relationships. 6 infected women
• Rome, 4 other women denounce the 30-year-old HIV-positive who has infected them with HIV

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Valentino Talluto, the 32-year-old HIV-positive sentenced to trial, accused of having infected no less than 30 women in unprotected sex although he was aware of his condition. It was decided by the gup Massimo Battistini who accepted the request of the prosecutor Francesco Scavo. Process on March 2 next in the Assize court. Talluto will have to answer for a malicious epidemic and very serious injuries.

There are 57 disputed cases at Talluto, including those of indirect infections (a child and 3 partners of previously infected women), as well as episodes of women who escaped the transmission of the virus. Gup Battistini rejected an abbreviated request for judgment conditional on the execution of an expert opinion on the personality.

Among the disputed episodes, starting in April 2006 (when he discovered he was HIV positive) and until November 23 of last year, the day before his arrest, also the case of a child, the son of a foreigner whom he infected for years before, to which the HIV virus was diagnosed at the age of eight months, together with encephalopathy, "causally referable - and it is said in one of the heads of charges - to the state of HIV status contracted by the mother during the birth".

The investigations made it possible to trace back to 57 episodes, but the investigators are certain that there are other people infected, directly or indirectly, who have avoided resorting to the judiciary. Talluto, now present in the courtroom, has always defended himself by claiming that he is not aware of the risks he could cause due to his HIV status. Most infected women had been contacted via the web. "These two years of investigations have also been done for the victims," ​​the prosecutor said.

He never explained why he did it
In prison, over the past few months, Talluto has answered almost all of Scavo's questions. But faced with the question of why he did it, he remained silent. The house arresters were denied because, the judges claimed, she could have continued to infect. His PC and the iPhone allowed to establish that he had at least a hundred women in 2015, the year he was arrested (it was November 23rd). Girls of twenty and women of forty. Students and family mothers. He tried to minimize, most of all he always rejected the idea of ​​having hurt himself. Violence to women horrified him: "If you tell me that I was a bad person not to use precautions, I agree with you but I absolutely do not violate women," he said to the prosecutor who questioned him at Regina Coeli in late December.

The nick was Harty Style, towing on the chats
Talluto knew he was HIV-positive. He said this at the pm, "but only since 2006". "It was not a problem," he said. "I mean in the sense that I didn't live it as badly as I had something less. But with the girls with whom I have been more and there was, as I can tell, a hope for the future I communicated to him others do not ". During the investigation, more emerged. Valentino's mother was a drug addict, took Aids and died when he was four. He knew it only much later, when he was 19. The cause of his mother's death did not give him another trauma: "I was disappointed only because I didn't know the truth, that's all."