Ailing Mafia boss begs release from jail 'to sire an heir'

[emad]

By Bruce Johnston in Rome
(Filed: 17/07/2005)

It is a request that Raffaele Cutolo, the former Mafia Godfather of Naples who is now said to have found God in his prison cell, hopes that the authorities cannot refuse.

Complaining of failing health, Cutolo, 64, is seeking a presidential pardon from his prison cell, where he is serving multiple life sentences for murder.

The official reason is that Cutolo wants to enjoy what little remains of his life in the arms of his wife, Immacolata, 22 years his junior. The real reason, however, is said to be that he is running out of time to consummate the marriage - the wedding took place in jail 23 years ago - and to impregnate his wife, who is now 42.

Cutolo, whose gangster "heydays" were in the 1960s and 70s, is the first boss of the Camorra, or Naples Mafia, to make such a request. Even though he is considered to be one of Italy's most powerful and bloody criminals, commanding a 3,000-strong Mafia "army" from behind bars, there is a chance, albeit remote, that the Italian president, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, will grant the pardon.

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[lvx35]

1. I wonder if he's allowed to mail his sperm.

[emad]

4. or send it into outer space like the Chinese are doing with pig

sperm?

China to send pig sperm into space:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=228x8098

[lvx35]

7. Dude, I would pay so much money to do that.

To look at the stars at night, and think, yes somewhere out there, is my sperm.

[emad]

8. Me too! If only I could actually produce any....

Guess sending a cosmic egg into rbit not quite the same...

[emad]

9. Me too! If only I could actually produce any....

Guess sending a cosmic egg into rbit not quite the same...

[aquart]

2. If he can get it up

He ain't that sick.

[MGKrebs]

3. Alas, shoulda thought of that before killing those guys.

[AnnInLa]

5. Just what we need --- a baby mafioso

[randome]

6. IOW...

"Please let me screw things up one more time!"