ORPHANS USED AS CHEAP LABOUR
Charges Brought In Italian Court (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) PISA, August 10. Mrs Irma Moscatelli, aged 52, was accused today of turning her big estate m Tuscany into an officially recognised orphanage to get cheap labour. She was alleged to have used her acquaintance with highly-placed people in Rome to obtain official recognition of what she called “the Foundation of the Children of Mamma Rosa. The charges alleged she “mercilessly exploited eight children assigned her by a big orphanage in Rome. Officials were said to have found the children in rags, without shoes, underfed, and doing farm work bevond their strength. The charge sheet added that one result of this official recognition was to free “Mamma Rosa” of the heavy taxes due on the estate.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27426, 12 August 1954, Page 12
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