“I never wanted to hurt my daughter, I never killed her, I never thought about it, I never wanted to do it, I never thought something like this could happen to Diana, it wasn’t something premeditated”. She said it Alessia Pifferi with spontaneous declarations in the courtroom, before the prosecutor’s indictment in the trial underway in Milan. The 38-year-old is in prison for letting her 18-month-old daughter Diana die of starvation in July 2022, abandoning her at home alone for six days.
“I am neither a murderer nor a monster, I am a mother who lost her daughter and I never thought something like this could happen to my little girl.” You said it with spontaneous declarations in the Alessia Pifferi trial in Milan. “I want to reiterate to all of Italy that I never premeditated something like this, I never wanted to hurt her, I am already paying for my life sentence having lost my little girl”, added the 38-year-old on trial for aggravated voluntary homicide.
In her long statements, Pifferi started from “her childhood as a child who was always isolated, without friends” with “a support teacher” and spoke of her father who “had a violent character and often beat my mother too and I witnessed these dramas and I also suffered – she added – sexual abuse around the age of 10, but I never told my family because I feared not being believed”.
She also named the person who allegedly abused her. “They took me out of school while I was attending a health worker course, because I had to look after my mother who was ill.” And again: “I lived with very little money. All the men I had made fun of me and played with me.”
“I didn’t know about the problems I had – he said again – and now I find myself in a humiliating, delicate situation and I always find myself locked in a cell and they don’t let me do anything and this thing sends me into depression. There is no day or minute that I don’t think about Diana.” “I didn’t know I was pregnant – she continued – but I accepted it, for me Diana was the best gift of my life”. Her family members “knew about my problems and if they had intervened we wouldn’t be in this situation”.
She also said she was “beaten and insulted by the other inmates”. Now the word goes to the prosecutor for the indictment.
Viviana Pifferi, Alessia’s sister and Diana’s aunt, cried for a long time when the prosecutor in his indictment in the courtroom described in detail, also through the testimonies of those who saw the body, what the little girl’s condition was and what she would have tried to do. acting like a child to resist those days, alone at home. Even the prosecutor Francesco De Tommasi was visibly moved at times during the indictment and when reading some passages of the documents.
“This is the terrible death of a human being – he explained – and in this case it is a little girl, who only knows how to smile and instead is found like this”. The mother, meanwhile, while the little girl was suffering, “was out having fun because her aim was only to nourish her relationship, just as today her aim is to evade the sanction”. Also in the courtroom was the child’s grandmother, mother of Alessia Pifferi, a grandmother who was also in tears during the indictment.
Prosecutor: ‘Pifferi is a murderer who only wants a reduction in her sentence’
Diana Pifferi, a child not even 18 months old, died of hunger and thirst after “atrocious and terrible suffering” with a “process of progressive weakening of vital functions” and she “found herself alone at home, because she, the mother, had run from her partner and had left her there alone.” Thus began the indictment of prosecutor Francesco De Tommasi in the Milanese trial of Alessia Pifferi.
The prosecutor is retracing all the “lies and lies” told by the 38-year-old to her partner (who is not the little girl’s father) to hide that she had left her daughter alone at home, who later died of starvation. Lies also told to her neighbor, to whom she said that she had left her with a babysitter who had disappeared, when the 38-year-old returned home on July 20, 2022 and found her dead.
“Today she came to tell us that she is not a murderer, but then why did she always want to justify to everyone that the little girl was not alone in the house?”, added the prosecutor. “She knew very well that it was something that shouldn’t be done, even a child knows that it is very serious behavior.”
“His is a useless effort because every time he speaks he presents himself as a lucid person who, with strategy, wants to obtain an objective and in this case wants a benefit in terms of sanctions.” This is how the Milan prosecutor Francesco De Tommasi also described the behavior in the trial of Alessia Pifferi, the 38-year-old on trial for having left her daughter Diana to die of starvation alone at home. For what reason, asked the prosecutor, “if she didn’t want to kill, on 18 July 2022, when she returns with her partner to Milan from where she left on 14 July, she doesn’t stop by” to see how her daughter is “alone in the house with very high temperatures” and “only with a little water and milk in the cot?”.
Pifferi, added the prosecutor, also told “yet another lie” about this, he said that he feared “his partner’s reaction”, but he had already told him that the little girl “was at the seaside with her sister”. She, continued the prosecutor, “did it only because she was afraid that her partner would end the relationship and she wanted to spend as many days as possible with him”. Pifferi, the prosecutor reiterated, “had a thousand chances to save the life of her daughter”.
“Pretend that Alessia Pifferi’s statements never existed, that from the beginning she made use of the right not to respond and it will be easy for you to judge her behaviour”, the prosecutor further explained to the Court.
She, he added, “wants to escape her responsibilities” and has done so since she found the body that day. “The babysitter, to whom she told the neighbor she had entrusted her, never existed”, the prosecutor pointed out, explaining that “from her we always, even today, have an addition to her narrative”. And when the neighbor speaks to her that day “there is neither desperation nor anguish nor physical illness in her, but there is only the concern to shake off that event that seems foreign and distant to her life”.
He calls his partner “and tells him that she is dead and says ‘you know, I told you a lie, she wasn’t with my sister at the seaside, I had left her with a babysitter'”. She continues to “lie even in front of the little girl’s body”, the prosecutor said. “She always reflects, she says that the door wasn’t locked, that the babysitter hadn’t closed it when she left, she always thinks about which version to offer”, explained De Tommasi, listing all those “ex post stories to try to halve her own responsibility”.
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