Couple short of cash abandon children

A GERMAN couple abandoned three young children in Italy because they had run out of money, a police official said yesterday, adding that the mother had been charged.

Her partner, who is wanted by German authorities, was under arrest.

Caterina Remhof, 26, and Sascha Schmidt, 24, who is not the father of the children, walked out of a restaurant in the northern town of Aosta on Sunday after ordering a pizza for the children, believed to be aged four, two and eight months.