Child died in car, father questioned: "I was convinced I had left her in kindergarten"

" I don't know what happened, I was convinced I had left my daughter in kindergarten ."

This is what the father of the 14-month-old girl found dead yesterday inside his car in the Cecchignola area, in Rome, allegedly said during the interrogation carried out before the investigators.

The man, a 45-year-old carabiniere, is under investigation for abandonment of minors .

The car is still seized: the investigators will have to complete a series of checks on the vehicle in order to clarify exactly what happened.

The parents of the little girl are still in shock. Yesterday afternoon when the mother went to pick up the little girl from kindergarten, the teachers explained that her daughter had never arrived at school. Then the woman saw the red Megane still parked there in front and with the child inside: she suffered an illness, a passing soldier broke the window to let the little girl breathe, but unfortunately it didn't help . The 118 operators tried to revive her, in vain.

It is yet another tragedy of the so-called "Forgotten baby syndrome", or "Forgotten baby syndrome" . The latest in 2019, the year in which Parliament approved the decree on the obligation of anti-abandonment seats in the car , that is, equipped with an acoustic alarm to remember the presence of the child in the car. A provision that came into force on November 7, 2019 and which provides for the obligation for children under the age of four .

(Unioneonline/L)