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Valentina Baldiserri and Ilaria Sacchettoni
Photographic documentation and reports would serve to reverse the current narrative and demonstrate, contrary to the protests of guardians and social workers, that there is, for example, no real aversion on the part of the family towards contemporary reality. The mother: «In the community they suffer»
Photos of daily life of the children of the family in the woods: while they are having fun on the (plastic) cars in the shopping centre, while they joke with their friend among the shelves of the supermarket, or while, in a playground, they let themselves fall from the slides (also made of plastic).
There is also the shot of the three eating ice cream using plastic spoons without any reluctance. Photographic documentation and reports would be useful reverse the current narrative and they would demonstrate, contrary to the objections of guardians and social workers, that there is, for example, no real aversion on the part of the family towards contemporary realityincluding everyday elements such as the use of plastic.
The lawyers explain that the circumstance of the nasogastric tube and the eldest daughter’s refusal to have it installed during her hospitalization in 2024 was due to natural fear of what was happeningnot to anything else. There are dozens of shots that the lawyers of the Anglo-Australian couple, Marco Femminella and Danila Solinashave attached to the appeal filed with the Juvenile Court of L’Aquila. They would be the (photographic) proof that those children — the eldest of eight, the twins of six — now separated from their parents and placed in a protected facility in Vasto, they have lived a life not only ideologically bent to neo-rural principles but alsoand made up of normality, relationships with other children, trips, socializing.
That’s how it is the defense goes on the counterattack: the risk that Catherine and Nathan Trevallion could lose their children forever (parental responsibility is currently suspended) is real. You try to balance different needs. One to reach a meeting point with the magistrates and the other to bring the children home. «Wisdom is needed» begins their consultantthe psychiatrist Tonino Cantelmi, choosing the nouns carefully. Because, of course, the judges may have their reasons but those measures now risk making adults and minors suffer.
«I understand the judges, but what idea can the children have of a previously affectionate father who is instead banned from Christmas lunch? Are we sure it’s not traumatic for them?” asks the professor who hasn’t stopped wondering about the side effects of the affair.
A story in which the mother of the three children remains at the center of the critical issues according to the Court. Catherine rigid, immovable, proud of her principles and her philosophy of lifenot inclined to collaborate with social workers. Even there, in the family home. Where, according to reports, he would like to impose his timetable.
The 45-year-old Australian speaks to an acquaintance and defends herself against the accusation of waking her children at 6 in the morning: «It’s completely false. Yes, I get up early in the morning and go downstairs where my kids sleep. I check to see if they’re awake. If I’m not yet, I’ll go to the kitchen and make some porridge. Then, when I notice that they have woken up, I go to them, also to make sure that they don’t disturb the others who are sleeping. The truth is that since I have been here my children have never slept soundly and often wake up with a start.”
These are days of anguishright. The biggest one would cause scratches on your arms. Worrying self-harming gestures. One of the twins would instead have canker sores.
It’s not easy to explain why – according to what transpires – instead of participating in the usual games in nature (with parents) children are often “parked” in front of the television in the family home. Yes, wisdom would be needed.
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December 28, 2025
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