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ROME — 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 and media reports said.
Police said they found the 47-year-old woman Friday in a filthy room in the family’s home near Naples. The woman was being hospitalized Saturday in 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.
Police said the woman’s son, now 17, was living with relatives in town and didn’t know about his mother.
