Filippo Throws Teenage Sons Down A Well & Leaves Them To Die
The remains of the brothers,Francesco and Salvatore Pappalardi, have been discovered at the bottom of an 18 metre well in Gravina, Southern Italy. The bodies were discovered by accident after firefighters rescued a teenager who had fell down the disused well, breaking both legs. Filippo Pappalardi has been charged with their murders, whilst maintaining his innocence. He has been held in custody since NOvember. The boys have been missing since June 2006. Police found that the bodies were both in foetal positions, one boy with his thumb in his mouth. A police spokesman said that it ’suggests that it is very likely that they were both alive for a while in the well before they died.’ The boys’ mother, Rosa Carlucci, said that she had had a dream that her boys were down a well, but she never dreamed that it ‘would be this close’.
Eunice Spry has been convicted of 26 charges which include cruelty and wounding of her three foster children. Christopher and his two sisters have told the court how she ‘rammed sticks down their throats’ to keep them quiet whilst they were being beaten. Christopher told of ‘torture positions’ and beatings with bamboo poles,mainly on the feet which would not leave a scar. He said that “I can live with the medical injuries, but the nightmares….I don’t get much sleep and you see it all playing back in your head. You just see her fqce and it’s really hard to sleep. That’s the worst thing.” He has written a book which he said has been therapeutic. In the book he talks about being locked in a room for over a month with very little food and water. “We weren’t let out for the toilet or to wash. When my nan came over to visit, they sat downstairs eating a roast dinner, which she brought upstairs for us and left it in the room, and we were told not to eat it. We just sat there, looking at this beautiful roast dinner after being starved for nearly a month and it was torture.” He has written the book so that people can hear first hand what really happened and so that he can put it behind him. Eunice is quoted as saying that ’she sweated blood for these children, she worked non-stop and that she loved them, and still loved them’. 
