A Milan children's court on
Wednesday temporarily removed a 14-year-old Moroccan girl from
her family which had whipped her because she dressed and acted
"too Western".
The girl, whose family said they disciplined her because of
unacceptable behaviour, was placed in a children's home.
Her mother, father and brother are under investigation for
mistreatment.
"It's an unfortunately ordinary story, like many we see,
where there is a cultural factor, and a conflict between a girl
born in Italy who wants to live like her friends and a
traditionalist family that tries to impose her upbringing with
physical and above all moral violence," the court's prosecutor,
Ciro Cascone, told ANSA.
"The religious factor is just an aspect of the cultural one,"
he said.
The local mayor said "unfortunately it's not the first or
last case of this kind, among girls who want to Westernise
themselves".
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