The trial of Alessia Pifferi, the 37-year-old in prison since the end of last July for having left her daughter Diana, almost a year and a half to die of starvation, abandoning her alone, has been set for March 27 before the Milan Assizes Court at home for six days.
This was decided by the investigating judge of Milan Fabrizio Filice after the request for an immediate trial formulated by the prosecutors Francesco De Tommasi and Rosaria Stagnaro.
The Public Prosecutor's Office decided to contest the aggravating circumstance of premeditation, which had been excluded in the precautionary measure, in the charge of voluntary homicide.
Homicide also aggravated by having killed his daughter and by futile and abject reasons.
The little girl, the prosecutors write in the charge, was left "without assistance and absolutely incapable, due to her very tender age, of looking after herself, without, however, sufficient foodstuffs and in conditions of clear and evident danger to her life, even related to the high temperatures of the period".
All this caused "in the minor a 'severe dehydration', with 'derailment of cellular functions with particular reference to the central nervous system and the circulation', culminating in her death".
In the process, the woman risks a life sentence.
The defense, with the lawyer Fausto Teti, will focus on a request for a psychiatric report to evaluate a possible mental defect at the time of the facts.
