A Italian mother, Alessia Pifferi, was sentenced this Monday to life imprisonment for having let his daughter Diana, who was only a year and a half old, die of hunger in 2022, as announced by a criminal court in Milan (north).
At the time, the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera He reported that Pifferi gave the baby a few drops to calm her down so she could go to her partner’s house. He only left the baby a couple of bottles and some bottles of water. She changed her diaper and then left her locked in the house.
“I only left her alone a couple of times, I don’t remember how many. I was worried about leaving her, so I left her two bottles of milk and two bottles of water. I had a lot of fears, even if she could drink, but I thought the milk was enough.” , the woman said in court, as she remembers Il Messaggero.
Pifferi returned home six days later and found the baby motionless in the crib. “I saw that he wasn’t moving. I patted him on the back. I put her feet in the sink to wet her, but she didn’t react,” the now convicted woman told the authorities.
I saw that he didn’t move. I patted him on the back
The little girl was locked up for six days during the extreme heat season in Europe in 2022, so she faced temperatures of 30 degrees.
During the process, the mother acknowledged that she had left the little girl home alone on other occasions, even entire 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.
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His IQ would prevent him from realizing the suffering and consequences of his 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.
Prosecutors also opened a parallel investigation against the convicted woman’s lawyer and the prison psychologists to clarify whether they manipulated their psychiatric examinations of the woman.
*With Efe
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