The 23-year-old mother of the abandoned baby near a dumpster in Taranto has changed her mind. She now she wants to recognize the child, who was named Lorenzo. “I was afraid of losing my job,” she said in recent days to the investigators who investigated her for abandonment of a minor. This is why yesterday morning you asked the lawyer who assists you, Francesco Zinzi, to be able to proceed with your recognition. All this could not happen due to a bureaucratic hitch. She had left the obstetrics department where she is hospitalized together with the lawyer to go to the office where the recognitions take place. She will try again today. But we will also have to wait for the opinion of the juvenile prosecutor’s office. That she’ll have to do custody assessments.
History
She also has another son who lives in Georgia. The prosecutor Stefania Ferreri Caputi will have the last word. The 23-year-old still risks arrest if she is also charged with attempted murder. On the afternoon of Friday the 11th, the woman had given birth to the baby in the bathroom of the woman she is caring for, then by herself she cut the umbilical cord and threw the placenta in the trash. The following morning she had left the baby in a rigid shopping bag, wrapped in a blanket and with a stuffed animal next to it, near the dumpsters and she had gone away. The baby was discovered by a woman who was walking her dogs, attracted by the baby’s cry, then taken to the hospital with a 118 ambulance. The Georgian carer was tracked down a few hours later by the Police, who had viewed the images of video surveillance cameras. She also risked bleeding after giving birth.
The law
What does the Italian law say about cases of unwanted children? The norms allow the mother not to recognize the child. In this case it will be recorded on the birth certificate as “born of an anonymous mother”. The so-called “cradles for life” are active in many parts of the country. These are structures designed to safely leave newborns by mothers in difficulty. In full respect of the privacy of those who deposit it. According to the Consolidated Law on Immigration (article 19) expulsion is not permitted for pregnant women and in the 6 months following the birth of the child.
