(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 16 - A woman who had been held in
captivity by her husband and in-laws was freed by police on
Tuesday night in Mantua.
The woman, who had suffered months of psychological vexation and
physical violence, was freed after police went to the house to
answer a domestic-abuse call.
She had just been bloodily beaten, police said, by her husband
with the complicity of his parents.
The family is north African, police said.
She was placed in a women's shelter while her alleged tormentors
were cited for physical and psychological abuse. (ANSA).
Woman held by husband and in-laws freed in Mantua
Suffered months of physical, psychological abuse say cops