Woman is freed after two decades
An Italian woman whose family kept her locked in a room for almost two decades after she was accused of becoming pregnant out of wedlock has been freed by police, authorities said.
Police said they found the 47-year-old woman in a filthy room in the home near Naples.
The woman was admitted to the psychiatric ward of a Naples hospital, the ANSA news agency reported.
Authorities arrested the woman’s brother and sister and put her 80-year-old mother under house arrest. The three were being investigated on suspicion of mistreatment and kidnapping.
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