• Child dead in Salerno, his father arrested for danger of escape
  • 8-month-old girl dies in the hospital. On the small body bruises and injuries, investigated the parents

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05 July 2019The officers of the Mobile Squad of Salerno arrested the mother of the small eight-month dead woman, as revealed by the autopsy, for repeated ill-treatment on the night between 21 and 22 June in Sant'Egidio del Monte Albino, in the province of Salerno . The woman's husband has been in jail since June 23 on charges of aggravated voluntary murder, a hypothesis of a crime also alleged against the mother of the child in the competition. The woman was transferred to the prison of Salerno.

The police investigations, coordinated by the deputy prosecutor Roberto Lenza, were initiated following the intervention at the emergency room of the Umberto I hospital in Nocera Inferiore where the newborn, carried by an ambulance in 118, had already arrived without life on the night of June 22nd. The child presented various ecchymoses and excoriations, for which it was deemed necessary to investigate the facts by listening to her parents and several witnesses.

The exam performed by the coroner, appointed by the prosecutor's office, lasted about four hours and took place in the morgue of the Umberto I hospital in Nocera Inferiore. The doctor spoke of a "singular case". The child would have died as a result of the injuries already seen after a first external examination, in the hospital, and by the same health personnel. Perhaps "suffocated", following "repeated abuse over time" that the same would have suffered "