Overview
- The children remain in a protected facility in Vasto with their mother, according to father Nathan Trevallion.
- He says visits are affectionate, with hugs and reassurances, but departures leave the children visibly distressed.
- The children repeatedly ask when they can return home to live with their animals and in nature, he reports.
- Trevallion defends the family’s rural lifestyle as common in rural settings and says the parents will follow child-protection rules while trusting the courts.
- Corriere della Sera reports that parental authority was removed in November, with a psychodiagnostic assessment due to start on January 23 and talks under way on schooling, housing and vaccinations.