Shocking fact shakes Italy: Parents enslave daughter (14) - First details known
Created: 11/28/2022, 8:04 am
By: Markus Hofstetter
Police officers in Rome have arrested a couple who are said to have kept their daughter like a slave.
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Investigators in Rome have arrested a couple who are said to have abused their own daughter.
The 14-year-old had to beg and was supposed to marry against her will.
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It is suspected of having kept its own daughter like a slave.
Accordingly, the parents refused the 14-year-old girl to go to school.
Instead, the father and mother forced them to beg in front of supermarkets.
If she didn't bring enough money home with her, she was abused.
This is reported by the Italian newspaper
Corriere della Sera
.
Parents in Rome enslave daughter: minors did not want to be engaged
However, there were also beatings when the girl refused to do household chores that were actually unsuitable for her age.
But that's not all.
When the minor refused to be engaged to a man chosen by her parents, her hair was shaved to make her unattractive to other men.
The girl ended her ordeal herself when she showed up at a police station to report her parents.
"I want to go to school," she reportedly said
to officers, according to
Corriere della Sera .
As a result, investigators are said to have interviewed managers, employees and customers of the supermarkets in front of whom they had to beg.
They have confirmed the information given by the girl.
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Parents in Rome enslave daughter: father and mother are accused of enslavement and assault
The police then arrested the parents, the 41-year-old father and the 36-year-old mother.
The allegations are enslavement and aggravated assault.
The girl herself was in a protective facility.
The authorities now want to check whether the girl's younger siblings were also abused by her parents.
Just a few days ago, three prostitutes, two Chinese and one Colombian, were killed in the Italian capital.
The background to the crime is still unclear.
