Parents arrested for forcing daughter, 9, into prostitution for N2000
Police in the southern Italian region of Sicily have confirmed the arrest of parents of a nine-year-old girl.
According to the police, the parents have been placed under house arrest for forcing their daughter into prostitution.
Two men aged 63 and 79, suspected of paying for sex with the girl, were also put under house arrest, a news agency said, quoting the Carabinieri police of Partinico, a small town near Palermo.
The child, who has been moved to a foster home, told investigators that the family would receive five euros (N2,200) if she kissed one of the two men, or 25 or 30 euros if she did “something more.”
The Carabinieri’s investigations, were however, prompted by a report from a man who witnessed the girl being abused in the open countryside, in the presence of her father.
