Newborn baby dies on cruise, the Prosecutor’s Office requests the immediate release of the mother: “Baby died of natural causes”

The note states that “in light of the preliminaries considerations experts“, which excluded signs of violence, the release of Jheansel Pia Salahid Chan, a 28-year-old Filipina, was advanced and obtained, who thus left the Florentine prison of They tickle. The investigations on Monday 20 May led to the issuing of three detention decrees against three foreign citizens employed on the cruise ship, where they carried out cleaning and dishwashing activities, moored since the previous day off the coast of Porto Santo Stefano, “in light of the serious circumstantial evidence revealed against the three women”. In particular, explains the Power of attorney“the inspection of the cabin, the cadaveric recognition of the deceased child, the analysis of the security camerasthe declarations of the personnel present inside the ship made it possible to ascertain that the mother of the child (who had presented a false medical certificate in order to be able to embark, despite being in the ninth month of pregnancy and having to face six months of navigation) and her two roommates” had denied a whole series of evidence. The pregnancy of the 28-year-old Filipina, “who had faced childbirth without any medical aid (even present on the ship) and kept the pregnancy hidden child for two days, without any health care, clothes, diapers and anything else useful for managing the first days of the newborn’s life”. The investigations they then ascertained that the three women had left “the newborn alone in the cabin during their work shifts, a cabin without air vents and the size of approximately three square metres“.

“This conduct continued until the death of the newborn was confirmed by the commander of the ship and had been determined by the fear of suffering harmful consequences in the workplace. The picture described bore this Power of attorney – explains prosecutor Navarro – to believe that there had been a deliberate acceptance, on the part of the three women, of the risk of endangering the life of the newborn, for the sole purpose of avoiding losing their jobs. Arrest decrees were then issued, in light of the concrete existence of a risk of escape, taking into account that the people involved were of foreign nationality, without roots in the national territory, embarked on a ship that was leaving national waters”. In the meantime, the investigating judge had validated the arrest of the twenty-eight year old, however reclassifying the crime no longer as voluntary homicide as hypothesized by the deputy prosecutor Giovanni De Marco but as child abandonment. The arrest of the woman’s two colleagues, who shared the cabin where he was born with her Tyler, however it was not validated and they were released from prison this morning. Her mother, as explained by her defender, the lawyer Giovanni Di Meglio to Adnkronos, Jheansel Pia Salahid Chan, after leaving the Florentine prison of Sollicciano was transferred to Livorno, where the company that owns the ship “Silver Whisper” provided temporary accommodation. “I am satisfied with the judge’s decision because, despite an intermediate step, our request for release was accepted,” declared the lawyer Better.