It makes me very sad and angry when I remember the words that Luigi (Maria Cristina's husband) told me. That he thought that his wife had died of a broken heart, yes alright she was a very ill lady, but the peak of the iceberg was when she asked for help they thought helping was removing her children when they could have sent some home help a few hours a day. Surely it's cheaper than up- keeping 3 children in homes/orphanages or whatever they are called nowadays. And I just simply cannot understand why Luigi still two years after Maria Cristina's death, has not got his children back. It's outrageous. Explain to me why a man who looked after a disable wife and 3 children and coped pretty well when he took a year off work, but he was obliged to go back to work and they couldn't afford paid help so they asked for home help. Look what it got them. It's disgraceful. This is why I hope that with my fly on the wall documentation of the family life, people will be able to see what happy, serene children they were when they were with their parents. I truly hope somehow this will help them be reunited. But no one will give them back those stolen 2 years of a father without his children and children without their parents.
The thing that makes my blood boil even more is how the authorities have split the siblings. Ricardo and Carmen are together and Vittoria is somewhere else. Why do they do that??? Why ?
Watch the short video below of my stay with the Lentini family in Verona back in 2009:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxF4v7eL10c&list=UUcVL0C_Be0PWs0H8yYZ4lDw
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