He killed his children in prison: paid for a total mental defect, but will have to do 15 years of Rems

• Detained Rebibbia: "My children are now free." The second child is also clinically dead
• Detained kills daughter in Rebibbia, Minister Bonafede suspends female section summits
• Held in the Roman prison of Rebibbia, he throws his two sons off the stairs: one is dead

Share

Suffering from a "schizoaffective bipolar disorder", when he killed his children he was totally incapable of understanding. Alice Sebesta, the German detainee who flung her two children from the stairs of the 'Nido' section of the prison in Rebibbia, in Rome in September 2018, was thus acquitted as a total vice.

The sentence was issued at the conclusion of the procedure abbreviated by the jailer Anna Maria Gavoni; the judge, in carrying out the girl, has however decided that he will have to be treated by spending the next 15 years in a Rems, or in a health care facility for offenders suffering from mental and socially dangerous disorders.

Today, Sebesta wanted to be present in the classroom. Prestissimo started from Castiglione delle Stiviere (Mantova), leaving Rems in which he is a guest, for one purpose only: to make spontaneous declarations and have his say before the judge. "It is not true that I am a bad mother and I did not use any cruelty - he said -. I did everything to save my children; I think about them every day". After the sentence, in tears, he greeted his lawyer Andrea Palmiero and returned to Castiglione.

The 'history' has been ascertained. It was September 18, 2018 when Alice Sebesta waited for the other inmates to line up for lunch, went to the stairs of the prison section of the prison and threw her two children down from the stairwell: the 6-month-old girl died instantly , the boy of just over two years died a few days later.

The "trial history" over time has been enriched with some important passages. First of all, a probationary accident was established in order to assess the woman's ability to understand and want, as well as her social dangerousness. The results of the first expert opinion were: Alice Sebesta was considered capable of understanding and wanting at the time of the event, also in consideration of the "deliberate intake of drugs in a massive dose for a month before the event". This conclusion went in the opposite direction to that of the consultant of the Pm who had expressed himself for the total incapacity. Then, however, the prosecutor asked and obtained from the investigating judge to replace the expert; and it came to the appointment of the psychiatrist Fabrizio Iecher, who concluded that Alice Sebesta "is suffering from a schizoaffective disorder of bipolar type" and at the time of the facts "was totally incapable of understanding but sufficiently able to want". In short, two conflicting reports. The word passed to the judge, who today ruled the woman's acquittal for total defect of mind, but with 15 years of treatment in a Rems.