A 55-year-old Italian man has
been arrested in the Florence countryside for kidnapping and
raping the 53-year-old former wife of one of his brothers.
The man had trapped the women for about a month, keeping her
tied up the entire time except for a couple of times per day
when she would be fed with such things as water and biscuits.
The woman managed to escape and, after walking 6 km in the
woods, asked for help from a passerby.
The man is accused of kidnapping, personal injury, rape,
domestic violence, robbery, and illegal use of payment cards.
Carabinieri police say that the kidnapping occurred in early
September, when the man - helped by another brother - used
deception to get the woman to visit his home in an isolated area
of Val di Sieve.
After beating and typing her up, the man allegedly forced the
woman to write a letter to her ex-husband to say that she was
moving abroad in order to justify her disappearance and a false
statement allowing her kidnapper's female partner to use her
credit card.
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