He kept him segregated at home , locked up and beaten in a room where he had set up a sort of amateur recording studio: the videos of the beatings went live online.

The horrible story comes from Mottola, in the province of Taranto .

The victim is a 57-year-old with mental problems. His tormentor, his 25-year-old nephew, arrested by the carabinieri who came into possession of one of the viral videos that portrayed him beating his uncle even with the use of a stick.

LIVE BATTLES - The 57-year-old was segregated in an apartment room . The military found him without even a bottle of water and without the possibility of being able to go out, even just to go to the bathroom.

And that's not all: inside the room there was a small support camera, equipped with wi-fi transmission, and the stick captured in the viral video. When the boy beat his uncle, the beating went live online.

The victim was rescued and transported by a 118 ambulance to the Castellaneta hospital . His general health conditions are good, but the presence of various bruises was found on the body of the disabled person, taken care of by the social services of the municipality of Mottola.

The grandson was arrested on charges of family mistreatment and kidnapping.

(Unioneonline / D)

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