Italian police arrest 18 for allegedly brainwashing and sell

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Italian police arrest 18 for allegedly brainwashing and sell

Postby DrEvil » Thu Jun 27, 2019 4:24 pm

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/ ... g-children
Italian police arrest 18 for allegedly brainwashing and selling children

Children were made to believe they had been sexually abused and were sold to foster parents
Agence France-Presse in Rome
Thu 27 Jun 2019 20.44 BST



Italian police have arrested 18 people, including a mayor, doctors and social workers, for allegedly brainwashing vulnerable children into thinking their parents had abused them so they could then be sold to foster parents.

Police in the northern city of Reggio Emilia made the arrests after an investigation, started in 2018, revealed an alleged network of carers who used methods including electroshock to make the children believe they had been sexually abused.

The network then allegedly gave the children to foster families in exchange for cash, while keeping gifts and letters sent to the children by their real parents hidden in a warehouse that was discovered by police.

The alleged abuse was reported by Italian media and confirmed to AFP by police in Bibbiano, near Reggio Emilia, on Thursday.

“These accusations, if confirmed, are frightening and shocking,” said Giuseppe Conte, the Italian prime minister, at the G20 meeting in Japan.

The accused include psychotherapists working for a social work association in Moncalieri, near Turin, and the mayor of Bibbiano.

To brainwash the children, those arrested allegedly forged child-like drawings with sexual connotations and used electroshock therapy as a “little memory machine” to create fake abuse memories, while the therapists are accused of dressing up as “wicked” children’s story characters.

The investigation, codenamed “Angels and Demons”, revealed a scheme to “pass off as a model welfare system for abused minors what was in reality an illegal business to the children’s detriment,” La Repubblica newspaper reported.

“According to investigators, the aim of the arrested group was to take children away from families in difficult social situations and to give them, for money, to other parents,” said the Corriere della Sera newspaper.

Some of the foster parents have been accused of sexually abusing the children they paid money for, according to La Repubblica.

Police declined to say how many children were involved, or of what age.

Hundreds of thousands of euros were involved, Italian media reported.
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Postby cptmarginal » Fri Jul 05, 2019 10:06 am

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The mystery of the machine used during psychotherapeutic encounters with children seems to have been clarified. It is an electromagnetic pulse instrument (Neurotek) with cables that the children had to hold in their hands. An instrument clarifies the prosecutor Marco Mescolini that "does not cause electroshock". The carabinieri, after hearing about it during the interceptions, found it during the searches and, at first sight, it appears harmless. This is a prototype not marketed in Italy, but only in the US, and its use is not foreseen by the Italian health system. Mescolini in any case decided to have it analyzed by an expert to see if, in addition to the psychological pressure, he had other effects on children.


In addition to the first citizen, six other suspects will be heard today. These include the therapist Claudio Foti, director of the Hansel and Gretel center


http://torino.corriere.it/cronaca/19_gi ... 3524.shtml

In Moncalieri, under the arcades of Via Roma 8, where the headquarters of the non-profit organization "Hansel and Gretel" is located, the bartender and baker cannot believe that the carabinieri have just arrested Claudio Foti, president of the Study Center and his partner, Nadia Bolognini, responsible for the diagnostic work in the evolutionary area. Both are known and uncensored psychotherapists. They had needed the lawyer only a decade ago, due to a disciplinary problem (later resolved) with the Order of Psychologists, related to some training courses. Today I am under house arrest with very serious accusations: ideological fraud, procedural fraud, misdirection. Their deceptions would have helped cause psychic injuries for five children. Foti, thanks to the bond of friendship with another suspect, Francesco Monopoli, social worker of Unione Val d'Enza, had obtained the opportunity to carry out psychotherapy sessions on minors at the La cura di Bibbiano center (King), after lavish rewards: 135 euros per interview, when the market rate is 60 or 70 euros.

There would be at least a dozen minors plagiarized and forced to listen to harsh words - "Your father raped you", "Your mother is a father", "Yours do not want you" - and to live tortures that they will never forget. Like that of the "memory machine" used by Nadia Bolognini: an instrument with electromagnetic impulses (neurotek) with cables that the little patients were forced to hold in their hands. According to the investigating judge of Reggio Emilia, the psychotherapist "altered the psychological and emotional state" of children. To a small woman whose mother was suspected of mistreatment (never tried), she had said: "Your dad was raping you." And again: "We empty the boxes called daddy and sex. You have sadistic attitudes towards the cat of your fathers because you have been abused ». Brainwashing was inflicted regularly on the child, who desperately asked for his father. The psychologist often screamed, flanked by the two foster girls of the girl, who insulted her. It is hard to read the reports of the sessions: the level of cruelty is almost unbearable. The false reports of Bolognini and the other suspects ended up on the desks of the judges who must decide to whom to entrust the children. In some cases, the children have been taken from their families of origin and data (suspected for a fee) to persons without qualifications, such as the owners of a sex shop. Claudio Foti, Bolognini's husband, would have even used a child as a guinea pig in a training course for local health workers in Reggio Emilia. He had convinced her that she had been abused by her father. In one case Nadia Bolognini was seen chasing the patient disguised as a bad wolf - the suspects would try to convince the court experts of their thesis (invented). The psychologist had even invented the declarations of a child, writing that: "The child claims that his father touched his pea." A lie.
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