“How’s the baby?”. This would be Monica Santi’s first question to the lawyer who defends her in the Sant’Anna prison in Modena. The 32-year-old was from babysitter to the little one who fell from the second floor of his house in Soliera, in the Modena area. The woman, originally from Carpi, is accused of attempted murder.
In the first interrogation the babysitter appeared very confused according to what her lawyer reported. Francesca Neri. And also in this second meeting it would be the same. She would have asked about the baby several times. “He’s in a state of confusion. He doesn’t realize what happened, but he keeps asking about the baby,” reports the Gazzetta di Modena.
The hearing to validate the arrest will be held on Friday morning in prison. According to what was reconstructed by the investigations of the carabinieri she would be the one to throw the 13-month-old baby out of the window. Graduated in Economics and Commerce, with no criminal record, she had been looking after him 8 hours a day since last January.
On May 31 the tragedy. Around 10 the neighbors noticed the child’s body on the lawn of the family cottage. Some witnesses say she appeared to be asleep. Immediate rescue and transport to the Maggiore hospital in Bologna. After the fall from about three meters, the child suffered a chest trauma and several fractures: his condition is serious, but stable.
According to some witnesses, the woman said: “The baby is now free”. She would have said so as she leaned over the window sill of the house. “From what I understand she was stressed,” said another neighbor. “I went down to the street to walk the dog, I saw the hustle and bustle, of the screaming women, one was holding the baby, it was lying on its back, it looked like a doll”, she told theAgi a witness who lives in a building in front of the house. “Then my mother came, he yelled, an indescribable scene.”
When the homemade event took place there was also there cleaning woman who may have seen it all. She remembered the little one’s grandmother. His grandfather is a well-known accountant in the area, his parents run supermarkets.
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Source: Vanity Fair
