(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 14 - It was her mother who killed Elena, the 5-year-old girl whose kidnapping yesterday she had reported in Catania.
It was the same woman, Martina Patti, 23, who confessed it to the Carabinieri during an interrogation.
As soon as it emerges, the young woman allegedly killed her daughter at home in Mascalucia and then carried her body to a nearby abandoned countryside plot, trying to cover it with earth and ashes.
The crime was allegedly committed after the woman had taken the child from her nursery while she was alone in the house.
The motive and dynamics of the killing are not yet clear.
The mother would have said that she acted without understanding what she was doing.
Help with the investigation may come from the autopsy arranged by the Prosecutor's Office.
(HANDLE).