ITALY
GlobalPost
Agence France-Presse February 7, 2014
The Italian supreme court has ruled the adopted daughter of an Italy-based Congolese nun raped by a priest must be returned to her natural mother, Italian media reported on Friday.
The woman had given the baby up shortly after her birth in 2011 because she wanted to stay with the “Little Sisters of Nazareth” congregation, but that request was turned down and so she asked for her baby back.
The little girl was being adopted by an Italian couple and another court had argued the nun no longer had rights as a mother because she only recognised her parenthood three and a half months after the birth.
The 44-year-old became a nun in 1996 and studied at a pontifical university in Rome, the reports said.
She said she was raped by a priest also from Democratic Republic of Congo in the city of Pesaro in central Italy in 2010 but never revealed his identity.
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