Boy in Hiding 7 Years in Italy Mafia Killings
An Italian boy has been kept in hiding for seven years to protect him from a gang vendetta in which 36 members of his family were killed, a Rome newspaper reported Monday.
The paper, Il Messaggero, quoted a social worker as telling a child abuse conference in this Tuscan coastal town Sunday that the child, now 11, and his 16-year-old brother were the sole male survivors of a family on the losing side in a vendetta between rival members of the Calabrian Mafia in southern Italy.
The social worker said the boy and his other surviving brother are now living in hiding.
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