Judge Paola Di Nicola’s prescribed list of books includes The Diary of Anne Frank, the poems of Emily Dickinson and a selection of Virginia Woolf novels. She hopes the books will help empower the victim.

However, author and professor of philosophy at Verona University, Adriana Cavarero, has said that it would have been better if one of the books was read to the perpetrator, not the victim, saying:

“Adolescence is not the time for reflection. What he did was much worse: an adult who, knowingly, paid for sex with a minor”.

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Italian judge orders sex offender to buy feminist literature for underage victim