(by Nicoletta Tamberlich).
The true story of a prostitution
ring with high school students from Rome's upscale Parioli
neighborhood will become a television series to air on Netflix,
the company has announced.
The series, to be called 'Baby', is inspired by the
high-profile case four years ago of two teen prostitutes who
worked out of an apartment in the Parioli district, Netflix said
on Wednesday.
It will include eight episodes and will be produced by Fabula
Pictures.
Filming will start in 2018.
The series will focus on a group of teens from Parioli who
are searching for their identity and independence while dealing
with controversial love stories, family pressure and shared
secrets.
"I made a lot of money, up to 5-600 a day", said one of the
two teens involved in the case when she was questioned by
magistrates.
The girls were 14 and 15 at the time.
"I spent what I made in luxury clothes and cell phones", said
the teen.
The two students worked from an apartment in Parioli while a
30-year-old man organized their appointments with middle-aged
businessmen, politicians and law enforcement officials, among
others.
After launching Suburra La Serie and launching the production
of a docu-series to be called Juventus FC, Netflix has now
announced its third original Italian series.
Baby explores the world of Italian teenagers - the dangers
they face, their frailty and lack of ideals, authors said.
Five young screenwriters who have formed the 'Grams'
collective - Antonio Le Fosse, Eleonora Trucchi, Marco Raspanti,
Giacomo Mazzariol and Re Salvador - have written the series
together with writers Isabella Aguilar and Giacomo Durzi.
Netflix, the largest online streaming platform worldwide with
over 109 million subscribers in 190 countries, said the series
is a "unique and unprecedented case" for the platform.
The true story on which the series is based was discovered
after the mother of the 14-year-old teen went to the police
because she couldn't understand why her daughter had so much
money and received "strange" text messages.
The other mother was instead sentenced to six years and four
months in jail by Italy's supreme Cassation Court as an
accomplice.
The Cassation in 2016 also sentenced, among others, Mirko
Ieni to four years and three months for pimping the teens.
In his closing argument, Cassation prosecutor, Ciro
Angelillis, said that all defendants were "aware" that the teens
were minors, that they "went to school" and "didn't have a
driving license".
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