The mother and grandmother of two
brothers aged four and two who are currently hospitalized in the
paediatric surgical ward of the Annunziata Hospital in Cosenza
over fractures and lesions suspected of having been caused by
beatings and abuse are being probed by the State attorney's
office in in the Calabrian city of Paola.
Prosecutors have issued an urgent restraining order against the
two women who are under investigation on charges of domestic
abuse and personal injury.
Neither of the two women will be allowed to see the toddlers who
are not in life-threatening condition, medical sources said.
The two brothers have been placed under the temporary care of a
tutor, the head of the hospital's paediatric surgical
department, doctor Fawzi Shweiki.
The mother and grandmother have denied any form of abuse.
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