Two nursery school teachers
were arrested near Ragusa Tuesday for hitting children.
The women were taken into custody for mistreating their
charges at Vittoria.
Prosecutors say they insulted, humiliated, pushed, pulled and
shoved and struck defenceless children.
The pair were placed under house arrest.
The mistreatment and abuse was allegedly caught on security
cameras which police set up after hearing parents' complaints.
The women are aged 59 and 54.
Police said the video footage shows "gratuitous and
unprecedented physical and verbal violence on children".
The probe, prosecutors said, "attests to the commitment and
attention towards the weakest, in particular children, often
silent victims of ignoble crimes committed by adults, which risk
marking irremediably the psychological and physical development
of those who will be the adults of tomorrow".
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