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Italian boy 'found dead by river'
Tommaso Onofri was taken from his home on 2 March
Italian police searching for a missing 18-month-old epileptic boy have found a body, Italian media reports say.
Earlier, police said they had arrested a man who told them that Tommaso Onofri, snatched a month ago, was dead.
Police said the detained man had been working as a builder at the family's farmhouse near Parma. His wife and another man have also been arrested.
The case has gripped the Italian public, prompting calls from the Pope and politicians for the boy's release.
Floodlit search
The man told police the boy was killed on the night he was seized as they tried to silence his cries.
Sources told Italian news agencies that police found a body during floodlit searches near the Enza river close to Parma.
After Tommaso was taken, the toddler's parents appeared on television in an appeal to the kidnappers, saying their son desperately needed medicine to control his epileptic seizures.
No ransom was demanded for Tommaso, who was abducted by two masked men wielding an apparent replica gun and a knife.
Pope Benedict XVI pleaded for the boy's "immediate and unconditional release" in a telegram to the local bishop, Cesara Bonicelli.
The telegram expressed the Pope's "solidarity with the relatives"
Italian boy 'found dead by river'
Tommaso Onofri was taken from his home on 2 March
Italian police searching for a missing 18-month-old epileptic boy have found a body, Italian media reports say.
Earlier, police said they had arrested a man who told them that Tommaso Onofri, snatched a month ago, was dead.
Police said the detained man had been working as a builder at the family's farmhouse near Parma. His wife and another man have also been arrested.
The case has gripped the Italian public, prompting calls from the Pope and politicians for the boy's release.
Floodlit search
The man told police the boy was killed on the night he was seized as they tried to silence his cries.
Sources told Italian news agencies that police found a body during floodlit searches near the Enza river close to Parma.
After Tommaso was taken, the toddler's parents appeared on television in an appeal to the kidnappers, saying their son desperately needed medicine to control his epileptic seizures.
No ransom was demanded for Tommaso, who was abducted by two masked men wielding an apparent replica gun and a knife.
Pope Benedict XVI pleaded for the boy's "immediate and unconditional release" in a telegram to the local bishop, Cesara Bonicelli.
The telegram expressed the Pope's "solidarity with the relatives"
Tommaso Onofri, 17 months old
The Onofri family
So, we have a married couple attempting a kidnap, assaulting the cottage where Onofri family lives and taking the boy away under gun threat.
The couple runs away on a scooter but they have an accident right after due to bad weather conditions. Tommaso starts to cry and the stress causes him epileptic seizures, so they decide that the best thing to do is to smash his head with a shovel and dump the body in a river.
The monsters that did this should be burned alive
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