Italy steps up rescue plan for mafia children

ROME: It is one of the most secretive organizations in the world, with power passed through blood ties and family loyalty. But Italy’s ruthless ‘Ndrangheta mafia may have met its match.

Judges in the country’s deep south have been placing the offspring from Italy’s most powerful criminal organization into care in a bid to save them from following their grandfathers, fathers and uncles down the path to prison.