They are associating promiscuity, drugs and wild sex, with a narcissistic callousness & even sadism: "I love myself and no one else", "People are just objects for my self-gratification", etc.
In fact, sometimes those things behaviors go together and sometimes they don't. Sometimes women are promiscuous & use drugs because they are just naively adventurous -- or are unhappy and have low self-esteem -- or are victims of early abuse -- or are emotionally manipulative -- or, or, or....
But Italy still has the Madonna/Whore dichotomy buried deep in its cultural mindset, especially when it is combined with something as obscene as murder. The prosecutor just played to that mindset: "Is Amanda a virginal innocent?" The answer was "No", by anyone's stretch of imagination. Therefore she must be "an evil whore capable of anything". Verdict: "Guilty!"
Hi, I know we just met a little over a week ago, but how would you like to be the Charlie Mansons of Europe and help me rape and murder my uptight Brit roomate that I’ve known a whole 60 days?
Sounds good, but we’ll need a third player, someone really decadent that we have never hung out with to hold her.
How bout that drifter I’ve seen in Le Chic a couple of times?
Sure, the Italian thug interogators will never get him to admit to our involvement........
So, seriously, the drifter’s conscience sounds like the pairs only hope, particularly if he gives up the murder weapon. You know how they say “It takes one to know one? I would bet my life they are both innocent. Only another innocent accused person knows fully how the innocent will behave. It’s like we’re a club.
Hi, I know we just met a little over a week ago, but how would you like to be the Charlie Mansons of Europe and help me rape and murder my uptight Brit roomate that I’ve known a whole 60 days?
Sounds good, but we’ll need a third player, someone really decadent that we have never hung out with to hold her.
How bout that drifter I’ve seen in Le Chic a couple of times?
Sure, the Italian thug interogators will never get him to admit to our involvement........
So, seriously, the drifter’s conscience sounds like the pairs only hope, particularly if he gives up the murder weapon. You know how they say “It takes one to know one? I would bet my life they are both innocent. Only another innocent accused person knows fully how the innocent will behave. It’s like we’re a club.
I would add to this only that Italy is not alone in this regard. We also see it here in this country, especially on this very site. Witness the many condemnatory remarks, on this thread and others, prefaced only by references to her sexual habits. Even apparently gleeful suggestions that Knox can look forward to years of lesbian rape in prison, which they figure the "dirty whore" probably wanted all along, I guess.
For too many people, Knox's lifestyle is reason enough to lock her up in a dungeon and throw away the key. Very disturbing.