Child abandonment and not murder. The judge for preliminary investigations in Grosseto dropped the charge against Chan Jheansel Pia Salahid, a 28-year-old Filipina, who had been arrested for the death of her baby. The woman had given birth to a baby boy on the Silver Whisper cruise ship on May 17 and then died […]
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Child abandonment and not murder. The judge for preliminary investigations in Grosseto dropped the charge against Chan Jheansel Pia Salahid, a 28-year-old Filipina, who had been arrested for the death of her baby. The woman had given birth to a baby boy on the Silver Whisper cruise ship on May 17 and then
The death of the newborn could be attributed to a natural death according to the initial results of the autopsy. And also for this reason the mother, a 28-year-old Filipino, she was released from prison. This morning the investigating judge validated the arrest, reclassifying the crime from voluntary homicide to child abandonment. The medical examiner has 90 days to deliver the complete report but initial findings show that the child died of natural causes. The 28-year-old has always denied wanting to cause the death of her newborn baby, who she had named Tyler.
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,” he said, crying and confirming that he had not told anyone that he was pregnant because“otherwise I would have been fired. I didn’t think I was this far along with my pregnancya”, 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.”
