Suspected child murderer swallows blade

(ANSA) - Naples, May 31 - The man accused of raping and murdering six-year-old Fortuna Loffredo swallowed a razor blade during visiting hours at Naples' Poggioreale Penitentiary, prison officials said Tuesday. Raimondo Caputo, 44, is the only suspect in the repeated sexual assault and ultimate killing of Loffredo, who fell from a balcony to her death on June 24, 2014, in the Naples-area town of Caivano. Caputo was taken to the prison infirmary and is not in serious condition, officials said. His live-in girlfriend, who is also in custody on suspicion of being an accomplice to Caputo's sexual abuse of her own young daughters, tried to hang herself in her cell earlier this month. The suicide attempt occurred on the day she attended an evidentiary court hearing in which her daughters testified.
    Testimony from children living in the apartment complex where Fortuna lived, was repeatedly raped, and ultimately died have led the Loffredo family and others connected to the investigation to suspect a wider pedophile ring may be at work there.