A 44-year-old Matera man was
arrested Thursday for beating his wife and keeping her a virtual
prisoner in their home in the southern Italian city.
Police said the man stopped his wife leaving the house, stopped
her getting a phone and gave her no money.
The man has already been arrested for beating and threatening
his wife since 2016.
He was arrested again after the woman reported him for locking
up their two-year-old daughter in the bathroom, because she had
been crying, and preventing her mother from helping her.
The man also took the women's monthly benefit cheque from the
government's 'citizenship wage' basic income scheme.
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