The mother of Antonio Giglio, a
small child who is suspected to have been killed after being
trapped in a network of child abuse in an apartment complex near
Naples, is suspected of manslaughter, judicial sources said
Thursday, confirming a report in daily newspaper Il Mattino.
The mother is the partner of Raimondo Caputo, a man accused
of killing six-year-old Fortuna Loffredo by throwing her from
the eighth floor of an apartment building at Caivano in June
2014 after repeated abuse.
Antonio Giglio, four, died in similar circumstances one
year before Fortuna.
Both Ms Giglio and Caputo are in custody.
In the Caivano case, a 13-year-old girl witness told a
court earlier this month that Caputo killed Loffredo.
"It was Tito who killed Fortuna", she said.
Caputo, who is under investigation for murder, has accused
of the murder his girlfriend and her daughter, Loffredo's best
friend.
Caputo, 44, is the only suspect in the repeated sexual
assault and ultimate killing of Loffredo, who fell from a
balcony to her death on June 24, 2014.
His live-in girlfriend, who is also in custody on
suspicion of being an accomplice to Caputo's sexual abuse of her
own young daughters, tried to hang herself in her cell in May.
Caputo swallowed a razor blade during visiting hours May
31 but was not injured.
Testimony from children living in the apartment complex
where Fortuna lived, was repeatedly raped, and ultimately died
have led the Loffredo family and others connected to the
investigation to suspect a wider pedophile ring may be at work
there.
Incest and child sex abuse are normal in parts of
Campania, the head of the children's and teenagers' watchdog for
the southern Italian region, Cesare Romano, said Tuesday.
Romano cited the Salicelle quarter in Afragola, the
Madonnelle quarter in Acerra, some quarters in Naples, as well
as Caivano.
"We have direct and indirect testimony that there are
whole areas, in very critical quarters, in which sexual abuse
and incest has been elevated to normality," said Romano,
presenting a report containing an estimated 200 cases of
maltreatment and violence "hidden" within domestic situations.
"We have done this survey to highlight that the phenomenon
is quite sizeable, transversal and very much submerged," Romano
said.
"There are city quarters that are very critical, such as
Salicelle in Afragola, Madonnelle in Acerra, many areas of
Naples, and last but not least Caivano with the events we know
only too well.
"We want to train the spotlight on this phenomenon and
do something that isn't just a probe but above all prevention
and fighting a phenomenon that must assuredly be combated".
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