The Court of Assizes of Milan has ordered a psychiatric assessment to evaluate the capacity of understanding and will at the time of the facts and the possible social dangerousness of Alessia Pifferi , the 37-year-old accused of voluntary homicide, even aggravated by premeditation, for having allowed her to die of hardship, in July 2022, abandoning her daughter Diana, who was less than a year and a half, alone at home for six days.

The prosecutor Francesco De Tommasi, however, was against this exam: "He doesn't have any mental problems and he had a wicked attitude towards his daughter", he said, reiterating: "I'm not about to be made fun of", asking the judges to reject the defense request for a psychiatric evaluation.

The prosecutor's criticisms were harsh on the medical tests carried out by the San Vittore prison and on the defense consultancy which essentially speak of the woman's mental retardation. "An IQ of 40 means that in the last hearing - said the prosecutor - she would not have been able to say anything, nor to make accusations against the police personnel, or to interact with anyone". Instead, she gave "clear answers", made "disconcerting statements", it was she who declared herself aware of what she had done, "saying that sometimes she left the little girl something to drink for her survival".

In short, for the Prosecutor's Office, no expert opinion on cognitive abilities or imputability was needed.

Even for the civil party lawyer, the lawyer Emanuele De Mitri, who represents the mother and sister of the accused, a negative opinion on the expert opinion because the mother herself "always said that she knew that the child could die".