Multiple Miggs
04-04-2006, 10:15 AM
I didn't realize Anthony had a layover in Italy too.
Killing of Abducted Toddler Roils Italy
ROME - The killing of an abducted toddler — apparently because his alleged kidnappers thought he cried too much — left police officers in tears and drew horrified condemnation Sunday from Pop Benedcit XVI and Italy's president.
Late Saturday, state television reported that authorities, guided by one of the alleged kidnappers, found the body of 17-month-old Tommaso Onofri buried near a stream close to his home outside Parma in northern Italy.
Nicola Vitale, head of Parma police special operations team, told The Associated Press that the two suspected kidnappers and a female companion of one of them were being interrogated about the March 2 abduction.
Vitale said police were inspecting the area where the body was found. No date had yet been set for a formal hearing, he said.
"I saw police officers cry," Parma's police chief, Vincenzo Stringone, told state radio on Sunday. "Until the end we had hoped that the child was alive."
News reports said the kidnappers told authorities the boy was killed about a half-hour after he was kidnapped.
The reports said the kidnappers, with the child between them on the seat of a motorbike, fell over as they rushed from the boy's house. When the toddler started crying, they tried to strangle him, then hit his head with a shovel until he went silent, newspapers quoted investigators as saying.
Link (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060402/ap_on_re_eu/italy_toddler_slain)
Killing of Abducted Toddler Roils Italy
ROME - The killing of an abducted toddler — apparently because his alleged kidnappers thought he cried too much — left police officers in tears and drew horrified condemnation Sunday from Pop Benedcit XVI and Italy's president.
Late Saturday, state television reported that authorities, guided by one of the alleged kidnappers, found the body of 17-month-old Tommaso Onofri buried near a stream close to his home outside Parma in northern Italy.
Nicola Vitale, head of Parma police special operations team, told The Associated Press that the two suspected kidnappers and a female companion of one of them were being interrogated about the March 2 abduction.
Vitale said police were inspecting the area where the body was found. No date had yet been set for a formal hearing, he said.
"I saw police officers cry," Parma's police chief, Vincenzo Stringone, told state radio on Sunday. "Until the end we had hoped that the child was alive."
News reports said the kidnappers told authorities the boy was killed about a half-hour after he was kidnapped.
The reports said the kidnappers, with the child between them on the seat of a motorbike, fell over as they rushed from the boy's house. When the toddler started crying, they tried to strangle him, then hit his head with a shovel until he went silent, newspapers quoted investigators as saying.
Link (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060402/ap_on_re_eu/italy_toddler_slain)