Police Investigate 16-Year-Old After Fatal Assault on Mother in Italy

Boy, 16, beats mum and calls 911, woman dies in hospital

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 31 - A 16-year-old boy violently beat up his 50-year-old mother and then called 911 to alert the police of what he had done, after which she died in hospital on Monday. The incident occurred in the building where the victim lived with her son in Centocelle, on the eastern outskirts of the capital. Il Messaggero broke the story. The boy is now hospitalized in the psychiatric ward at the Policlinico Umberto I; he had previously had problems. The woman was taken to the Policli...

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