Carabinieri police on Tuesday
arrested 15 health workers over the alleged abuse of psychiatric
patients at the Don Uva centre in the southern city of Foggia,
sources said.
Another 15 people are under investigation in relation to the
alleged physical and psychological abuse of at least 25 patients
and they have been subject to various restrictive measures, such
as the obligation to reside in a certain place and bans on
approaching the victims.
The victims were patients in the women's section of the
psychiatric department aged between 40 and 60, the sources said.
The patients were allegedly locked in rooms, tied to beds and
chairs with sheets, slapped, punched and pulled by the hair,
dragged down corridors, threatened and humiliated with offences
about their disability and age.
One health worker allegedly sexually abused a female patient and
another alleged made a patient rape a woman.
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