A 20-year-old Youtuber, Matteo DiPietro, was sentenced to four years, four months in jail on Wednesday after a Rome judge accepted a plea-bargain with prosecutors over an accident in Rome in June last year in which a five-year-old boy was killed.
Di Pietro, a member of the 'Borderline' Youtube collective, was driving a rented Lamborghini SUV that ran into a Smart car in the Casal Palocco district of the capital, killing the boy and injuring the victim's mother and sister.
He was found guilty of the crimes of aggravated road homicide and causing bodily harm.
The group of Youtubers was supposedly taking part in a socialvideo challenge involving driving the Lamborghini SUV overseveral days.
Last June a preliminary investigations judge said Di Pietro had"rented the Lamborghini SUV with the sole and obvious purpose of impressing and capturing the attention of young web visitors in order to increase advertising revenue, to the detriment of safety and responsibility, and consequently to proceed at a speed above the indicated limits".
The SUV had allegedly been traveling at over 124 km immediately before impact.
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