 came from a very poor family. In fact, her family was so poor that they ended up getting kicked out of the house they lived in and had to move into a neighbor's house and try to make a living that way. And of course the neighbor, she was only 12 years old at the time, this is 1902, and the neighbor had a son by the name of Alessandro who was 18 years old who took a fancy to Maria and wanted to have his way with her.