He abandoned his 84-year-old mother, an invalid and not self-sufficient, who later died after a few days due to hardship, to go on holiday with her children: in Montelibretti, in the province of Rome, the Carabinieri of the Monterotondo Company, following a complex activity of an investigation coordinated by the Tivoli Public Prosecutor’s Office, arrested a 49-year-old woman.
The police had gone to the woman’s house to deliver a document, but no one responded. Suspicious of the smell coming from the apartment, they decided to investigate further. They then carried out a check of the perimeter of the house and found an open window which allowed them access. Inside, the soldiers found the body of the elderly woman, lying on the ground; only one sheet partially covered her. The medical examiner intervened on site and confirmed that the 84-year-old’s death dates back to a few days earlier.
The investigations made it possible to immediately shed light on what happened, and to direct the investigations towards the 49-year-old daughter, cohabitant, responsible for the care of the elderly woman, on whom serious circumstantial elements were gathered regarding the fact that instead of looking after her, removed from the home to go on holiday in Abruzzo together with her two minor children, without giving the mother due care, thus abandoned to herself, without food or water and without any mobile phone to be able to call for help.
The woman is accused of abandonment of an incompetent person, a condition following which the elderly mother died. The 49-year-old was stopped by the Carabinieri of the Monterotondo Company and taken to the Rebibbia district house where the investigating judge of the Tivoli Court validated the arrest and ordered the measure of house arrest.
