Questione giuridica chiave
Whether repeated sexual acts from 1986 to 1995 formed a single unitary act for limitation purposes under Art. 71 CP / old law.
Decisione estratta
No. Repeated sexual acts, even if regular, planned, and committed on the same person over many years, do not constitute a single legal or natural unit of action under Art. 71 let. b CP.
Motivazione estratta
The Federal Court relied on its recent case law on prescription of repeated acts and found no reason to reconsider it. The prior conduct before 1 October 1992 was therefore not saved from prescription by a unity-of-action theory.