Mother jailed in child abuse case

(ANSA) - Naples, May 4 - The mother of a four-year-old boy who fell to his death in the same building where six-year-old Fortuna Loffredo was raped and thrown off a balcony was put in jail Wednesday after violating her house arrest. The woman is the girlfriend of 44-year-old Raimondo Caputo, Fortuna's accused rapist and murderer. She was under house arrest on charges of failing to report Caputo's sexual abuse of one of her own daughters. Her son with Caputo, Antonio Giglio, fell to his death in April 2013. Loffredo died in June 2014.
    Two other residents of the Parco Verde complex at Caivano, near Naples, are under investigation for allegedly misleading the probe by giving false statements about the death of Fortuna.
    Prosecutors believe other residents may also have taken steps to throw the investigation off track as they also look into a suspected pedophile ring and the probe could soon be extended to new suspects, ANSA sources said earlier this week.
    Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said the conspiracy of silence surrounding the case weighed as heavily as the crime itself.
    Last Sunday Pope Francis spoke out against the "tragedy" of paedophilia, saying that children must be "defended" and culprits "severely punished".
    Caputo was moved to an isolation cell after prison officers saved him from an attempted lynching by other inmates Saturday.