A couple were arrested near Potenza
Tuesday on suspicion of subjecting the woman's children from a
previous relationship to "repeated beatings" and "cruel
physical punishment", police said.
The pair were arrested, police said, to prevent their physical
abuse of the children having "further and more serious
consequences".
Both children were under the age of 10.
Police were called in by the children's grandmother and aunts
who had intervened on several occasions to stop the violence.
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