An Italian mother, Alessia Pifferi, was sentenced this Monday to life sentence for letting his daughter Diana starve to deathwhich at that time was only a year and a half old, in 2022, as announced this afternoon by a criminal court in Milan.
The judge, Ilio Mannucci Pacini, announced the first sentence in a case that shocked Italian society, thus accepting the request for life imprisonment made by the Prosecutor’s Office. According to the agency EfePifferi was accused of aggravated voluntary manslaughter for the death of her daughter 18 monthswhom she left alone in her house on the outskirts of Milan from July 14 to 20, 2022 to go to her partner’s residence in the province of Bergamo (north).
The autopsy certified that the little girl had died from dehydration. Pifferi’s lawyer, Alessia Pontenani, had demanded her acquittal, alleging that she did not intend to kill her daughter and asked to try her only for the crime of abandoning a minor, attributing her actions to her “terrible life” and “neglect.” “that the accused suffered.
During the process, the mother acknowledged that I had left the little girl alone at home on other occasions, even full weekends. “We feel atrocious pain. She has forgotten to act as a mother. She should pay for what she has done… if she had at least repented or asked for forgiveness… but she has not,” lamented the mother of the condemned woman. María, to the media upon learning of the sentence.
Likewise, the defense presented a series of psychiatric reports carried out on the mother in the San Vittore penitentiary in Milan that attested to a “very low” IQ, 40 pointswhich would prevent her from “realizing the suffering and consequences of her own actions.”
However, the court subjected her to another series of tests and, although they confirmed a “complicated psychiatric condition” of the accused, they did not detect “incapabilities of understanding” in her, so she was aware of the consequences of leaving her daughter alone.
On the other hand, at the hearings the Prosecutor’s Office claimed to have found traces of sedatives in the girl’s body, although the investigations finally rejected that possibility. Prosecutors have opened a parallel investigation against the convicted woman’s lawyer and the prison psychologists to clarify whether they manipulated her psychiatric examinations.
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