"Diana was the most beautiful girl in the world, she didn't deserve this, she has to pay for what she did"
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This was told to reporters by
Viviana Pifferi, sister of Alessia,
the 37-year-old who was present this morning at the first hearing of the trial in which she is
accused of aggravated voluntary homicide for having left her daughter Diana of almost a year and a half to die of starvation, abandoning her alone at home for six days
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Her sister, also in court at the Court of Assizes in Milan and wearing a T-shirt with a photo of her niece printed on it, and the 37-year-old's mother, the little girl's grandmother, will be civil parties in the trial against Alessia Pifferi.