ITALY
Gazzetta del Sud
Florence, August 23 – Four people, including a 68-year-old former priest, were placed under investigation Friday for sex slavery in Tuscany. The probe examined alleged mistreatment of nine women and a man in a cult based in Montecchio di Cortona, in the province of Arezzo, as well as misappropriation of funds, according to newspaper reports. The group was allegedly forced to submit to sexual and psychological violence, according to Florence investigators. The cult leader is a former priest called Mauro Cioni, who left the Catholic clergy in 1985.
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