Rome jail women's section head suspended

(ANSA) - Rome, September 19 - Justice Minister Alfonso Bonafede has decided to suspend the director of the women's section of Rome's Rebibbia prison after an inmate killed her daughter and critically injured another of her children inside, sources said Wednesday. Two other officials have also been suspended in relation to the case, the sources said.
    A 31-year-old German woman serving time for drugs offences threw both of the children down a flight of steps on Tuesday, sources said. The victim was a four-month-old girl while the injured child is a 20-month-old boy. Warders' union SPP said "keeping children in jail is torture". "This tragedy could have been averted and others must be averted," said SPP chief Aldo Di Giacomo. "Children shouldn't be kept in prison: for them it is a torture; it's not possible for something like this to happen".