Amanda Guidi, the 31-year-old woman accused of killing her one-year-old son by suffocating him on the night of 17 June 2021, was sentenced by the Assize Court of Ferrara to 22 years in prison. The generic mitigating circumstances were recognised, also due to the the woman’s difficult past and her borderline personality disorder. On the night of the infanticide, the 31-year-old had drunk alcohol and taken cocaine.
Was condemned by the Court of Assizes of Ferrara a 22 years imprisonment Amanda do you drivethe 31-year-old woman accused of having killedsuffocating him, the own son just a year old, on the night of June 17, 2021.
The judges of the court recognized her mitigating factors genericalso due to the woman’s very difficult past and the borderline personality disorder also highlighted by the psychiatric report, equivalent to the contested aggravating circumstances, as requested by the public prosecutor Ciro Alberto Savino, who had proposed a sentenced to 21 years in prison.
The woman, who was assisted by the lawyers Alessio Lambertini and Marcello Rambaldi and who in recent years has been always hosted in care facilities, she was also sentenced to pay a compensation to the ex-partner, father of the child, assisted by the lawyer Alessandro Gabellone, with the additional recognition of a provisional of 30 thousand euros.
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According to what has been reconstructed, Amanda Guidi had on the night of the infanticide drank alcohol And hired cocaine. An intake which, from subsequent investigations, turned out to be frequent, so much so that the child also had a high concentration of the metabolites for both substances in his blood, taken through the milk maternal for at least eight months.
Immediately after realizing she had killed him, she tried to take her own life by cutting her wrists. She herself had also called the police. During the interrogation she had given conflicting versions, first she had accused herself and then she had denied everything. According to the reconstruction of the investigators, the woman suffocated her little son by pressing his hand or another soft object on her nose and mouth.
At the time, the woman had complained to her mother that she couldn’t sleep because the baby was always crying. The defense had asked the judges to evaluate the woman’s experience, which was also dotted with multiples attempts Of suicide, and had cast doubts on its effectiveness voluntariness of suffocation.
From what emerged, in fact, they had not been found visible lesions exteriorly. “We will read the reasons and we will certainly appeal”, were the words of lawyers Rambaldi and Lambertini after reading the sentence.
