Domestic worker accused of stealing jewels worth over 400 thousand euros from the house where she worked was sentenced to one year and 9 months in prison. The sentence was issued yesterday at the Frosinone court. The accused chose the abbreviated procedure and was therefore able to benefit from a discount of one third of the sentence. The public prosecutor Rossella Ricca had asked for a heavier sentence: two years and eight months.
The facts date back to June last year when the victim, a retired high school teacher residing in Ferentino and belonging to a high-class family, had moved to her daughter’s house for some time. The elderly woman, however, had instructed the domestic worker to continue to carry out the cleaning on a weekly basis.
Then when the lady returned to her home she immediately realized that the family jewels, necklaces and bracelets of great value that had been handed down from generation to generation, were missing. At that point the woman filed a complaint. And since she had always had full trust in her domestic help, she hadn’t even thought that it was her who had stolen her valuables. Among her stolen jewels was a necklace set with precious stones which, in addition to having an inestimable value, above all had a great emotional meaning because it had been given to her by her mother.
The police immediately got to work to try to locate the jewels and two pieces of the stolen goods were found in a “Gold Buyer”: a pair of earrings and a necklace. This is how the domestic worker ended up under accusation.
THE PROCESS
So the woman ended up on trial. The accused, defended by the lawyer Tiziana De Lorenzo, always defended herself by claiming that she had only stolen the jewels found in the “Compro Oro” and had done so out of necessity. Her husband, unemployed and ill, needed medicines and therapies and she, who did not have the money necessary to be able to treat him, had seen fit to earn some money by pulling off that theft. The owner of the “Compro oro” had given her 700 euros for those precious items of hers. The precious necklace, inherited by the retired teacher from her mother who had purchased it in a jewelery shop in Fiuggi, has never been found.
The accused, in addition to the sentence of one year and nine months obtained thanks to the reduced sentence provided for by the abbreviated procedure, was also sentenced to pay a fine of 412 euros.
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