Reggio Calabria: the State Police arrests a 48-year-old woman and a 61-year-old man for kidnapping and family mistreatment.

The State Police of Reggio Calabria has a 48-year-old woman and a 61-year-old man were arrested, held responsible, at the state of the proceedings still in the preliminary investigation phase, for the crimes of kidnapping and family mistreatment committed against the woman's 81-year-old father, suffering from depressive disorders.

The investigative activities, carried out by the policemen of the PS Commissariat of Palmi, under the direction of the Public Prosecutor's Office at the Court of Palmi, directed by the Prosecutor Crescenti, began with information obtained by the staff during the performance of other investigative services.

Having perceived the seriousness of the situation, the officers put everything into action a series of investigations which made it possible to ascertain that those arrested forced the elderly parent, locking him, inside a room with the window blocked by nets and bars. The elderly man was segregated inside the room for long periods of the day and left in this condition even in the absence of those arrested. The investigative activities made it possible to ascertain that the two, she a housewife and he busy carrying out odd jobs, carried out this conduct for months.

At the time of execution of the judicial order, the agents have found the woman's partner in the house who didn't even have the keys to open the father's room since the latter took them with her every time she left the house.

The man, tried although not in serious conditions of abandonment, at the end of the ritual activities was entrusted to the care of some acquaintances while his daughter and her partner, on the orders of the GIP of Palmi, were placed under house arrest.