Just when you think you've heard it all…
A 47 year-old woman named Maria Monaco was found locked in a room in a house near Naples, Italy. Her family had kept her there since 1990. Her crime was getting pregnant out of wedlock.
The police were acting on an anonymous tip and found Ms. Monaco "in a confused state and surrounded with filth and excrement she was living in squalor." Her jailers were her siblings, Prisco (brother) and Michelina (sister). They've been arrested by the Caribinieri (Italian paramilitary police force); Monaco's 80 year-old mother has been placed under house arrest.
But what about the kid she gave birth to? Well, he's 17 now, and lives in a nearby town. He reportedly didn't know anything about this. Police are looking for the father, but they aren't releasing his name (the mother's name, they have no trouble telling everyone.) It has been difficult to interview Ms. Monaco because she has been so psychologically damaged by the experience, according to reports.
This is kind of like the case of the Austrian lunatic Josef Fritzl, although he's very clearly a lone sociopath. This is more of a conspiracy amongst family members to keep some family dirt a secret.
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