Beaten over rumors of alleged abuse, which later circulated in a viral Facebook post. Catello Salvati’s support teacher at Ic 2 Panzini in Castellammare di Stabia, who was attacked and almost lynched by around thirty parents of students at her school last Thursday, November 14, is called Veronica Sposito and is 37 years: two mothers accuse him of unspecified abuse against their children. She is calm: “Nothing compromising will come out of the analysis of my phone,” she says through her lawyer. Teacher beaten by his parents, phones checked for compromising videos. Secure school. But how and where did this affair originate? On a WhatsApp group called “La Saletta”, which included the teacher and six students. According to the accusations, audio messages containing explicit sexual allusions were posted in this chat: five parents of students have filed a complaint and speak of harassment. We do not know if these messages with sexual allusions really exist, if they are false accusations or if the teacher’s profile has been hacked: we are talking about an audio with a woman’s voice, but it does not there is no proof that it is his. The incident of the boy caught smoking and then suspended could be the reason for a case created to “punish” the teacher. Meanwhile, the newspaper Il Mattino writes today that the punitive expedition against the professor was allegedly led by the wife of a leader of the D’Alessandro clan: the Castellammare carabinieri are investigating this matter. Veronica Sposito was allegedly the victim of a double attack: first taken by women and dragged outside, then beaten a first time. Then a lynching when the parents arrive and the carabinieri prepare to enter. The 37-year-old woman suffered a head injury and a 30-day prognosis, her father is hospitalized with a broken arm. According to Il Mattino, the “complaint” against the teacher began with the boy suspended after being caught smoking: many in the neighborhood describe the case as retaliation against the teacher. Meanwhile, solidarity comes from the mothers of the other students, not towards the teacher but towards the other parents: “Yes to teachers, no to the administration” and “Protection of our children, solidarity with mothers”, said two banners. And around twenty mothers justify themselves: “No one believed us, the school did not defend us when we reported the facts. The chat, the audios in which we hear a female voice saying and asking children certain things, the videos. We saw and heard and that is why we reacted. The climate yesterday, Monday November 18, at the start of the school year, was very tense. Carabineros and police patrolled outside the building, at the request of the director, to ensure the security of the classes. Secure school and numerous absences from classrooms, demonstrating the impact of the incident. The testimonies on alleged compromising discussions for the teacher overlap and contradict each other: they would be proof (which is not shown) of the harassment suffered by children between 11 and 12 years old, at the origin of what the director of school, Teresa Esposito, called “collective hysteria”. There are mothers who distance themselves from the complaints, because they have never been able to see videos or chats attesting to the harassment that we are talking about. Two factions clash: for and against the existence of “evidence” which the Castellammare di Stabia carabinieri are investigating and of which no concrete element has yet emerged. Do these cats really exist? The director, Donatella Ambrosio, did not wish to meet journalists. His assistant, Teresa Esposito, reaffirmed that she was not aware of any compromising conversation with the teacher, with whom no one has spoken since the attack. “Let’s leave her alone,” said Esposito, “she is in shock. Now the investigations must be clarified. Then the whole day was dedicated to the internal investigation of the Regional School Directorate of Campania, with inspectors at listening to teachers and principals “I also doubted this teacher, when the mothers told me about ambiguous sentences contained in the chats,” said the president of the school board, Roberta Cammarota, “but when I asked them to listen to these cats, they replied ‘in due time’… so I don’t know what to say. In this neighborhood, the majority are normal and honest people. It didn’t deserve to end like this under the spotlight of the media.