The judge for preliminary investigations in Grosseto has dismissed the charge against Chan Jheansel Pia Salahid, a 28-year-old Filipina, the mother who gave birth to a child on the Silver Whisper ship on May 17 and was then arrested for the child’s death
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The judge for preliminary investigations of Grosseto, Sergio Compagnucci, reduced the charge from voluntary homicide to child abandonment against Chan Jheansel Pia Salahid, the 28-year-old Filipino woman arrested after the death of her son after giving birth on board the ship Silver Whisper cruise on May 17th, off the coast of Argentario. The woman was arrested after being accused of the death of the newborn. The investigating judge confirmed her arrest, ordering that she remain in precautionary custody. However, the arrest of her two colleagues and cabin mates was not validated, both of whom were released from prison and released. The cause of death of the child, named Tyler by her mother, who has consistently denied intentionally causing her death, has yet to be determined.
The woman remains in prison in Sollicciano
For the investigating judge, therefore, little Tyler, just two days old, was not killed but died on the cruise ship despite the fact that his mother, an attendant on board, had tried to make him survive after the unexpected birth. The child was found dead in the cabin. As mentioned, the judge validated the arrest for the woman by ordering that she remain in prison, in Sollicciano (Florence), where however she no longer has to bear the very serious accusation of voluntary homicide formulated by the deputy Giovanni De Marco of the Grosseto prosecutor’s office.
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No signs of violence were found on the newborn
Judge Compagnucci’s order arrived on the day in which the autopsy was performed on little Tyler’s body at the Misericordia hospital in Grosseto. The medical examiner, Professor Mario Gabrielli, in charge of the examination, has 90 days to deliver the report to the prosecutor’s office. According to what emerges, there are no signs of violence on the newborn. Among the hypotheses, it is emerging that the newborn may have died from an infection due to the birth, which took place in critical conditions on the cruise ship.
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The interrogation, which lasted over three hours, with the help of an English-speaking interpreter, was dramatic but clarified many aspects of the story. “I didn’t want to starve my baby. I looked after him, washed him and fed him”, she said crying and confirming that she had not told anyone that she was pregnant because “otherwise I would have been fired. I didn’t think I was so far along with the pregnancy”, and when she embarked she thought “maybe she could give birth in Nice”, the final stop of the cruise. Today the ship is in Marseille. She told the judge that it would have been her intention, once she returned to the Philippines, to entrust the child to the natural father, with whom she had a relationship that has already ended, because she alone “could not have raised that child because she was already committed to supporting his original family of six.”
