Overview
- The three children remain in a care facility, with the mother visiting daily and the father allowed regular visits.
- Social services deemed the off‑grid home without running water or electricity unsuitable, citing poor hygiene, social isolation, and the children’s lack of schooling.
- Media reports say the children encountered electric light switches and a shower for the first time in care, and that the eight‑year‑old cannot yet read or write in English or Italian.
- The case began after a severe mushroom poisoning in September 2024 led doctors to alert police, triggering a youth‑services investigation.
- Senior politicians criticized the court decisions while the national judges’ association defended the magistrates and warned against political pressure tied to a coming justice‑reform referendum.