Trial against mother – Baby Diana died: ‘I thought the bottle was enough’

The charge against 37-year-old Alessia Pifferi concerns intentional murder. The Italian woman left her 18-month-old baby home alone to starve to death in July last year. During the warm summer days, Pifferi drove from the Italian fashion metropolis of Milan to the town of Leffe near Bergamo in the same region to spend time with her new boyfriend.

Suspect lied to the neighbor
On the first day of the trial, the defendant explained that she had already left her daughter Diana alone in the past. “Very few times,” Pifferi said in a low voice in the courtroom. And further: ‘I thought the milk bottle I left her was enough.’ The fact that she also lied to her neighbor at the time by letting her know that she had entrusted Diana to a babysitter was entirely due to the shock of the moment.

“I’m actually a good mother”
Pifferi in court: “I’m actually a good mother. They’re trying to get me to say I killed Diana. But I didn’t kill her. I washed her, changed her, fed her and contacted a doctor when she was sick.”

“The baby wasn’t the right color”
The ex-boyfriend urged her to just leave Diana alone. When the 37-year-old returned to the Milan apartment from her nearly weeklong visit, Diana was already dead. The defendant: “So I picked her up and held her under the tap to see if she would recover. I gave her a chest massage and then called my neighbor because I was panicking. The baby did not have a nice color.” The neighbor immediately raised the alarm, but all help came too late.

The doctors could only determine that the baby was dead. According to her lawyer, the defendant has the intelligence quotient of a seven-year-old child and also suffers from a severe intellectual disability. Conclusion of the lawyer: “A child has been given responsibility for a child!” The verdict in this case is still pending.