A judicial page that was still open since 2005. Since that damned December 20th. When one of the Bombara family’s twins, Edoardo, died two days after being born at the Messina Polyclinic due to some serious respiratory complications.
A case that has been bouncing around for years with different outcomes in the criminal justice courts for the doctors involved, and which now sees a conclusion on a civil level. Almost twenty years after the events.
The final verdict arrived in recent days was decided by second civil section of the Messina court of appeal presided over by judge Sebastiano Neri and composed of colleagues Antonino Zappalà and Maria Grazia Lau, with the latter also being the drafter of the provision. And one of the doctors involved at the time in the criminal trial was sentenced to compensate the parents of little Eduardo.
The amounts established are hundreds of thousands of euros, almost a million in total. Which the parents of the newborn would surely immediately throw to the wind just to have him back in their arms.
It is necessary to take a step back and talk about the criminal trial, which involved the three doctors who cared for the little boy at the Polyclinic at the time of the events.
In the first instance in 2012, the doctors Giuseppe Pagano, Viviana Tulino and Antonina Bonarrigo, who at the time of the events were working in the Neonatal Pathology Unit, were acquitted with the formula “because the fact does not exist” from the initial charge of manslaughter. and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the Polyclinic. In this interminable affair they were assisted respectively by the lawyers Isabella Barone, Filippo Cusmano, Carmela Zarcone and Fabio Marchetta. They were acquitted following a request from the prosecution for a prison sentence of one year and six months.
Read the complete article in the paper edition of Gazzetta del Sud – Messina
