Widow of clarinetist Gigliotti arrested

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Feb. 15 (UPI) -- The 50-year-old widow of the late classic clarinetist Anthony Gigliotti has been arrested in Florida on child abuse charges, police say.

Police in Hernando County have charged Tai-Ling Gigliotti and her live-in boyfriend, Anton Angelo, with false imprisonment and aggravated child abuse in relation to her adopted son, the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times reported Saturday.

The pair are accused of stripping Gigliotti's adopted 16-year-old son naked and beating him with a water hose and 3-foot piece of wood. The teen, whose name was not reported, told authorities he was routinely beaten for more than three years by his adoptive mother.

For the surviving members of Anthony Gigliotti's family, the recent allegations made against the woman were no surprise.

"We are all shocked and appalled," Laura Gigliotti, Anthony Gigliotti's daughter-in-law, said, "but not necessarily surprised."

"She's a horrible, horrible person, and I thought that before this," Lynne Gigliotti, daughter of the late Philadelphia Orchestra clarinetist who died in 2001, told the Times.