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Parents arrested in Italy for planning to kill disabled three-year daughter

epa07143111 Police near a post office, where a man took hostages in Reggio Emilia, Italy, 05 November 2018. According to reports, Francesco Amato, the man convicted last week in the sprawling 'Aemilia' trial on 'Ndrangheta mafia infiltration, entered a post office and took hostage five staff members threatening with a knife. One of the five hostages was released after an hour. Police on the site is negotiating with Amato and is considering wether to send in special forces. EPA-EFE/ELISABETTA BARACCHI

The Egyptian parents of a disabled three year old girl were arrested in Milan on the  suspicion of beating their three-year-old disabled daughter and planning to kill her.

Italian police intercepted the pair as saying they hate their daughter and planning to put poison in her food or in other ways.

The police were alerted to the child’s situation after she was admitted to hospital suffering various injuries spurred suspicions  in the medical staff that attended her of ill treatment.

The parents are both from Egypt and both 29 years old.

They were arrested along with their other four children, aged one and a half to eight, after boarding a bus to Milan’s Malpensa Airport for a flight to Egypt.

The pair have been in Italy since 2010 and live in an illegal squat in the north east of Milan.

The man is a labourer while the woman is a housewife.

Via RAI News

 

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