Children stolen from Fortuna's father, juvenile court in L'Aquila validates

The Juvenile Court of L'Aquila has validated the provision with which the social services of Lanciano took away the three children aged 7, 4 and 2, from Pietro Loffredo, father of little Fortuna Loffredo (the six-year-old girl who on 24 June 2014 was thrown from the eighth floor of a building in the Parco Verde di Caivano, in the province of Naples) and his partner Giovanna Orta.

The provision with which the children were placed in a family home "due to the state of abandonment in which they found themselves" was notified to the Loffredo family in Lanciano on 19 September.

The judges also instructed social services "to carry out a detailed social investigation on the family unit and to verify the condition of the minors and their parents, activating the interventions deemed necessary in consideration of their condition".

"It is unacceptable - comment the lawyers Angelo and Sergio Pisani, lawyers of Pietro Loffredo and Giovanna Orta - even from a human point of view, despite the absence of elements to be discovered, that three children are removed from their family and these innocent victims are deprived of their beloved parents, due to some alleged housing problems which were immediately and adequately addressed and eliminated and which could have been resolved even without taking the children away as required by law".

The two lawyers contest the provision and announce "complaint and every possible defense up to appeal to the Supreme Court and to the international courts and all the competent bodies". "Children are not parcels to be transferred from a home to a community. They are people, with affections, ties and rights", conclude the Loffredo family's lawyers.