Naples, paternity scam sold to irregular migrants discovered

The Municipal Police's Child Protection Unit, led by Captain Giuseppe Cortese, brought to light a situation that was, to say the least, anomalous. Investigations began in mid-March when health workers at Naples' San Paolo Hospital reported to the Juvenile Court the case of a young woman who, after giving birth, blocked the process of registering her baby, claiming that the child was not her partner's son. During the investigation, as reported by Il Mattino, it was discovered that the twenty-eight-year-old, originally from central Naples, was living with a man her age from Ponticelli, a convicted felon, who in turn was married to an African woman. The couple already has six girls, aged three to nine, and two of them were recognized by two Moroccan men, with multiple criminal convictions and facing expulsion orders, who disappeared after the process was completed. The large family lived in a car and then occupied a warehouse in the western part of the city. It's a single room with the entrance as the only opening, no light, and in disastrous hygienic conditions, with no water or electricity, and no toilet facilities except for a toilet in the center of the room hidden by a curtain. The girls are malnourished, some require special care, and have obvious language and interpersonal difficulties.
The parents, also aware that the little girls cannot live in those conditions, try to disappear. They move in with a relative, but the agents manage to track them down again and reconstruct their movements by contacting schools and pediatricians between Naples and the province. In the meantime, the newborn is still at San Paolo. Time is running out and there is little time to recognize him and it is only possible to do so in the hospital or in the municipal office where the family is registered as resident. So the agents organize the stakeout and when the deadline expires, on the tenth day, the woman, her partner, his father and a Moroccan, officially resident in Turin and with a criminal record, show up at the Civil Registry of a Vesuvian municipality. And the situation immediately appears very clear: the child, like the two sisters, was about to be recognized by a man who had paid to have a residence permit for eighteen years. The newborn, initially entrusted to the health management, is now in a family home and in April the same measure was also taken for the little sisters who are in a protected location.