Child who died in Novara, investigating judge confirms his mother and his partner. She denies: "It wasn't me"

• Dead child in Novara, stop the mother and her partner

• Child dead in Novara, mother and her partner investigated

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May 27, 2019 The mother denies, her partner is silent.

"It wasn't me."

Gaia Russo thus defended herself, questioned by the judge, from the accusation of the murder of her twenty-month-old son.

The partner, Nicholas Musi, continued to use the right not to answer.

The streets of the couple from Novara are beginning to separate.

But neither, now, insists on denying the evidence.

Little Leonardo had not "fallen off the bed", as his mother said when she called 911, but he was brutally beaten.

The investigation will clarify the rest.

The investigating judge Raffaella Zappatini, accepting the requests of the prosecutor, validated the arrest of Gaia and Nicholas, placing custody in prison for him and house arrest in a protected structure for her, who is five months pregnant.

The young woman answered the judge's questions for an hour and a half and, although she did not explicitly accuse her partner, she claimed that she had no responsibility.

Last Thursday there were just the two of them with Leonardo in that house where the child was beaten to death.

The death was caused by a violent blow to the abdomen: it caused a traumatic hemorrhage to the liver, which led to his death in less than half an hour.

But on the little body the coroner found bruises and lesions almost everywhere: on the head, on the chest, on the back, even on the genitals.

Injuries dating back to the morning.

And other signs of injury from a long time ago.

Gaia's family had guessed something, but they would never have imagined the horror that Leo, as they called the little one, had been living for some time.

Since, so they declared, Gaia had gone to live with Nicholas, of whom she had become pregnant.

And now they accuse the man of having subjugated her.

A feeling also had by the prosecutor Ciro Caramore, but that does not seem to change the position of the young woman: she is in fact accused (like Nicholas Musi) of voluntary multiple murder.

A life sentence.