Bassano del Grappa, charge aggravated for mother of Beatrice Berti
The charge against Valentina Pasini is upgraded from manslaughter to voluntary manslaughter, accused of the death of her fourteen-year-old daughter in 2021. The judge accepts the request from the Vicenza Prosecutor's Office; the case returns to investigation stage.
Aggravation of charge in Beatrice Berti case
According to rainews.it, the judge has accepted a request from the Vicenza Prosecutor's Office to modify the charge against Valentina Pasini, 43 years old, mother of Beatrice Berti. The charge is upgraded from manslaughter to voluntary manslaughter for the death of the girl, which occurred in June 2021. The file has been returned to the Prosecutor's Office for further investigation.
Beatrice had suffered from birth with a serious neuromuscular disorder and was dependent on a mechanical ventilator twenty-four hours a day. Investigators have two priority lines of inquiry: the functioning of the apparatus and the clinical conditions of the girl in the hours before her death.
According to the prosecution, on the day before her death Beatrice had been admitted to a clinic in Padua following a loss of consciousness. Doctors would have advised hospital admission, but her mother would have discharged her and brought her back home. There the ventilator would not have been connected to the mains, resulting in the battery being depleted. The defence contests this reconstruction, casting doubt on the technical examinations of the machinery and arguing that the discharge had been authorised by medical personnel.
Source: Google News IT — Crime (it)