Alessia Pifferi, the woman accused of starving her daughter Diana, less than a year and a half old, to death in July 2022 during the six days she was on vacation outside Milan with a man, has been sentenced to 24 years in prison.

The judges of the First Criminal Court rejected the appeals presented by the prosecutor and the defense attorney.

The Attorney General's Office of the Supreme Court had requested a second appeal, urging a new trial—accepting the request of the Milan Attorney General—on the grounds of the mitigating circumstances recognized on appeal and the elimination of probation. In the first instance, the woman had been sentenced to life imprisonment for aggravated voluntary manslaughter.

"The evidence on which the ruling based its recognition of mitigating circumstances is lacking. The child died because she was deprived of food and water for days," said the prosecutor, who declared the appeal regarding her mental capacity to be unfounded: "The woman's mental distress did not affect her mental capacity."

(Unioneonline)