Teacher arrested for 'racist abuse, physical violence'

(ANSA) - Bologna, December 17 - A 55-year-old woman teacher at a nursery school in the northern city of Imola has been put under house arrest for allegedly subjecting her pupils to physical and verbal abuse, sources said on Monday. The woman allegedly directed racist jibes about the countries of origin of some of the migrant children in her class, the sources said.
    The allegedly abuse, which is said to have featured insults and humiliation of the children, lasted three years.