Staff Writer| The Patriot Ledger
ROME (AP) – Friday’s child is loving and giving – but not if he lives in Italy.
Italian judges forbade a couple from naming their son Friday, saying it would bring the child shame and ridicule to be named after the character in “Robinson Crusoe.”
“They thought that it recalled the figure of a savage, ” the couple’s lawyer, Paola Rossi, said.
Mara and Roberto Germano named their son, born Sept. 3, 2006, Venerdi, Italian for Friday.
City Hall officials are obliged by law to report odd names, so the matter ended up before judges in Genoa. Rossi said the court ordered the boy to be named Gregorio, after the saint on whose day he was born.
