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  • Rome: baby girl found dead in the Tiber, is being investigated for murder
  • Rome. Baby girl found dead in the Tiber, behind the neck the signs of a blow
  • Rome, a newborn in the Tiber, died of asphyxiation

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by Tiziana Di Giovannandrea 29 December 2019 Impossible to do justice. All the investigative tracks followed so far ended up in streets with no way out so that the Rome prosecutor asked for the case for the newborn girl fished in the Tiber , died of asphyxiation, to be closed on 6 July this year. The little body was found by a fisherman who immediately gave the alarm by speaking in excruciating terms of the discovery of the little girl who initially had mistaken for a doll floating in the river.

It is not known whether it was the mother or someone who cruelly tore it immediately to throw the baby still alive and with the umbilical cord attached, in the Tiber at the height of the Mezzocammino Bridge , an area south-west of the capital after Spinaceto-Mostacciano. after childbirth. During the investigation the DNA of the newborn was taken and analyzed with the hope of finding a profile compatible with a family member but without a comparison it was impossible to trace the mother. Mother who has disappeared into thin air. After the DNA test, the only track that seemed to be the most founded and decisive proved to be non-existent.

The autopsy established that at the time of birth the baby girl was healthy, Caucasian and was born regularly at the end of the ninth month of pregnancy. To carry out all the scientific investigations was one of the leading Italian experts in forensic genetics, Dr. Emiliano Giardina , professor at the University of Tor Vergata collaborator for some time with the Scientific Police of the Central Anti-Crime Directorate , the one who allowed to associate the name of Massimo Bossetti to the murder of Yara Gambirasio.

Given the deadlock in which the investigations ran aground and the current impossibility of giving the newborn identity, the prosecutor Silvia Santucci was forced to ask for the investigation to be closed. Now the final word belongs to the judge of the preliminary investigations.

Funeral of the little girl one month after recovery, called Francesca Romana
Her funeral was held in early August, a month after the baby girl was found in the Tiber. The little girl was given the name of Francesca Romana. The funeral was attended by three hundred people, including the mayor of Rome, Virginia Raggi. The Salvamamme Association asked for a barbaric and brutal murder of the little girl killed through a heartfelt appeal to the first town in the capital, Virginia Raggi.