Social services brainwashed kids into thinking they were abused, sold them to foster parents

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Eighteen people have been arrested in relation to a case in which children were brainwashed into believing they had been sexually abused by a parent and then sold to foster families.

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Italy arrests 18 for allegedly brainwashing and selling children

Italian police have arrested 18 people including a mayor, doctors and social workers for allegedly brainwashing vulnerable children into thinking their parents had abused them so they could then be sold to foster parents.

Police in the northern city of Reggio Emilia made the arrests after an investigation started in 2018 revealed an alleged network of carers who used methods including electroshock to make the children believe they had been sexually abused.

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Treat surrogate parents as sex offenders, says Italian minister

Treat surrogate parents as sex offenders, says Italian minister

Italy’s interior minister has called for surrogate parents to be treated as sex offenders, as part of a broader campaign against the prime minister’s efforts to grant family rights to same-sex couples.

Roma Face Persecution Across Europe In New Baby Stealing Panic

Roma Face Persecution Across Europe In New Baby Stealing Panic

From Ireland to Italy, Roma are facing a new wave of persecution and harassment in Europe—including having their children taken in for genetic testing—in the wake of the discovery of little Maria. By Tom Sykes and Barbie Latza Nadeau.

Adoptions to Italy halted

Adoptions to Italy halted


ADOPTIONS of Slovak children to Italy were put on hold on February 19, due to what Slovakia identified as missing post-adoption reports on the fate of 72 Slovak children adopted by Italian families. The moratorium will remain in effect until all of Slovakia’s terms are met by the Italian side. Meanwhile, Italy, the country with the highest demand for international adoptions from Slovakia, has promised to supply by April 15 the missing reports on 72 of the 269 children adopted over the past 10 years, Labour Ministry spokesperson Michal Stuška told The Slovak Spectator.

Court orders sisters back to Italy

Court orders sisters back to Italy

THE Family Court has issued a warrant authorising Australian Federal Police to retrieve four Sunshine Coast girls and deliver them to child services.

Dad gives up custody battle over daughters

Dad gives up custody battle over daughters


An Italian father caught up in an international custody battle for his four daughters living in Queensland has apparently given up hope of winning his legal fight.

A father's heartbreak in 'land of injustice'

A father's heartbreak in 'land of injustice'


AN INTERNATIONAL custody battle playing out in Australian courts has left the Italian father at its heart feeling abandoned by the federal government and discriminated against because he is not the mother.

Girls can live with mother in lead-up to High Court hearing

Girls can live with mother in lead-up to High Court hearing

A Queensland judge has ordered four girls, embroiled in an international custody battle, can be returned to their mother until a High Court hearing next month.

Four Sunshine Coast sisters stressed, isolated in foster care during Family Court battle

Four Sunshine Coast sisters stressed, isolated in foster care during Family Court battle


FOUR Sunshine Coast sisters fighting their court-ordered return to Italy are becoming increasingly stressed in foster care where they are isolated from friends and schoolmates and can see their mother only in a tightly controlled government office.

Two arrested over deadly school bombing

Two arrested over deadly school bombing


Italian police have arrested two suspects over the bombing of a school that killed a 16-year-old girl and seriously injured five more teenagers, it has been reported.

Italy Arrests Two In School Bomb Attack

Court puts baby in care after judge rules parents are too OLD to look after her

Court puts baby in care after judge rules parents are too OLD to look after her

An Italian court has ordered a baby girl to be taken into care after ruling her parents were too old.

Italian hospital asks doctors not to snort cocaine at work

Italian hospital asks doctors not to snort cocaine at work

An Italian hospital director sent a memo to doctors and nurses asking them not to snort cocaine while on duty, the ANSA news agency reported Saturday.'

Child abuse victims to protest outside Vatican

Child abuse victims to protest outside Vatican

Victims of child abuse by priests will hold a demonstration outside the Vatican next month against the Catholic Church's role in the scandal, an Italian organisation said on Saturday.

Priest calls for Pope's resignation

The Pope is under fire for allegedly keeping quiet about clerical sex abuse. A top Vatican Cardinal is now calling for a "housecleaning" and asking the church to be more alert on the issue. Now, one local priest is asking the Pope to step down.

Sex abuse scandal in US, Italy taints papacy

Sex abuse scandal in US, Italy taints papacy

Revelations that the Vatican halted the investigation of a Wisconsin priest accused of molesting some 200 deaf boys have eerie echoes in Italy, where 67 deaf men and women accused two dozen priests of raping and molesting children for years.

Vatican criticizes Rome school's condom machine plan

Vatican criticizes Rome school's condom machine plan

The decision by a Rome high school to install condom vending machines has set off a storm in Italy, with the Catholic Church charging the move will encourage young people to have sex and Rome's mayor saying it sends the wrong message.

In Italy, a Mamma Accused of Doting Too Much

In Italy, a Mamma Accused of Doting Too Much

In the idealized picture of the American heartland, baseball, mom and apple pie feature prominently. The Italian version? Soccer, spaghetti and, yes, la mamma. But in recent years, the folkloric image of the doting Italian mother has been joined in the national consciousness by something a tad less idyllic: the mammone, or mama's boy, the hyper-coddled son (daughters are statistically less susceptible) who grows up so attached to his home, and to his mamma in particular, that he never really becomes independent or a self-sufficient man.