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15 June 2019Not nearly a day goes by without new cases of ill-treatment against children in kindergarten emerge. The last two episodes in Ragusa, in Sicily, and in Nardò, in Puglia.

Master 56-year-old arrested in Ragusa
Children forced to eat, slapped, reprimanded, subjected to psycho-physical violence by a nursery school teacher, a 56-year-old Ragusana, arrested for aggravated abuse because committed against minors. This is what was discovered during the investigation by the carabinieri of Ragusa. The investigations are still ongoing.

Seven of the most serious disputed episodes that led the investigating magistrate Andrea Reale to issue the precautionary custody order under house arrest. "I love my children, you have seen evil", the woman told the soldiers of the Arma that this morning they notified the measure to the woman, according to the captain commander of the Compagnia dei Carabinieri of Ragusa, Elisabetta Spoti.

The activity started from the complaint of a mother who presented herself in front of the carabinieri of Ragusa Ibla. He said that his two-year-old daughter who attends a daycare center talked about the "bad teacher" and reported strange behavior and attitudes of her daughter who sometimes doesn't want to go to school. He had heard other complaints, but no one had the courage to expose himself.

The Ragusa Ibla station started with audio and video interceptions requested by the magistrate in charge, Francesco Riccio, with which enough elements were collected to request a measure against only one of the teachers. Investigations still in progress, confirms pm Riccio.

Barrel and insults to 3-year-old children in Nardò, suspended teacher
Barrel, threats, humiliation even by a 61-year-old teacher against children of only three or four years in the classroom of a nursery school in Nardò, in Puglia. This is what emerges from the audio-visual shots taken by the carabinieri since last February, after the complaint of the parents of a child who had noticed bruises on the child's legs. From the audio captured by the cameras, the military have extrapolated numerous threatening sentences addressed by the teacher to her little students, like "woe to you if you move, I cut your legs with the scissors make her come here and cut him ...". And again: "You suck", "Do I have to beat you for an empty bench?" The carabinieri have also documented spankings, slaps, shoves and other ill-treatment of children and further phrases like "I'll cut your legs I'll break your bones". In several cases, the offenses caused children to cry.

In all, the carabinieri have documented 47 episodes of abuse from last February to May. The elements collected by the soldiers of the Nardò station led to the suspension of the teacher from the public service with a precautionary measure issued by the magistrate of the Court of Lecce, Edoardo D'Ambrosio, at the request of the deputy prosecutor, Donatella Palumbo.