update
May 24, 2024
6.51pm
The baby’s mother was released from prison, as decided by the Grosseto investigating judge based on the preliminary autopsy report of the medical examiner according to which the newborn died of natural causes. The colleagues were released, their arrest was not validated.
The mother of the newborn who died on the cruise ship has been released from prison. Judge Compagnucci of Grosseto ordered this on the basis of the preliminary report of the autopsy conducted by the medical examiner according to which the little boy died of natural causes and not through violence. This morning the investigating judge had validated the arrest of the 28-year-old Filipina, however reclassifying the crime from voluntary homicide to child abandonment.
The case of death of the newborn found lifeless in mother’s cabin on one cruise shipwhere the woman worked as a janitor, therefore It doesn’t amount to a homicide. This was established by the Grosseto investigating judge after the hearing to validate the arrest of the woman, Chan Jheansel Pia Salahid, a 28-year-old Filipina.
The position of the 28-year-old therefore completely changes, as she had claimed from the first moment that she had not killed the child voluntarily but had left him in the cabin to work on board. After the interrogation, they had already been the two colleagues were definitively exonerated and cabinmates on the ship, who had been arrested after her on the same charge. In fact, the investigating judge did not validate the arrest of the two women who were immediately released.
What stage is the investigation into the newborn baby who died on the cruise ship and what is the mother accused of?
The 28-year-old confirmed in the hearing to validate her arrest, carried out with the help of an interpreter, that she had given birth to the child on May 17 on the Silver Whisper cruise ship where she worked and that she had kept the pregnancy hidden from everyone out of fear. to lose your job. In the few days before the tragedy, she would have breastfed him in the cabin in the presence of colleagues who would have given her a hand when she was on duty. The woman revealed that she had put the baby in a locker of the staff, leaving the doors open when he was not there and explained that he had found him dead when he returned.
The autopsy on the newborn’s body: death from natural causes
“I had called my son Tyler,” the woman said during the more than three-hour interrogation. The exact details have not been clarified at the moment cause of death of the child. A certain answer will only come from you autopsy results on the newborn’s body conducted today by the medical examiner Mario Gabrielli, appointed by the prosecutor. According to initial reports, the examination, carried out at the morgue of the Misericordia hospital in Grosseto where the newborn’s body was taken after the arrest of the mother on Sunday 19 May, did not find any signs of violence, attributing everything to natural causes. The hypothesis is that he may have died from an infection due to giving birth, which occurred in critical conditions on the cruise ship but the medical examiner has 90 days to deliver the final report to the prosecutor’s office.
The mother: “I didn’t want to let him die, I looked after him, washed him and fed him”
“I didn’t want to starve my baby. I looked after him, washed him and fed him,” the 28-year-old said crying during the interrogation. The mother confirmed that she had hidden the pregnancy for fear of losing her job, saying that she did not expect to give birth. “I didn’t think I was that far along with the pregnancy, I thought I could give birth in Nice, the final stage of the cruise” the woman reportedly said, explaining that she wanted to entrust the child to her natural father, with whom she had a relationship that has already ended, because she alone “she would not have been able to raise that child because she was already busy supporting her original family of six people”.
