The child who in 2024, at just 5 months old, was saved from his parent's violence while he was hospitalized in the pediatrics ward of Padua for a serious respiratory problem, will bear the consequences of the abuse committed by his father for his whole life .
Confirmation was provided by the forensic medical report filed in the evidentiary incident before the investigating judge by the specialists charged with verifying the child's condition after that hell.
Serious and permanent lesions to the oral cavity , the doctors said, recalling that for those damages the child also had to undergo a very invasive surgical operation. The magistrates already had few doubts about the father's responsibilities, because the man, now 23 years old, after the first suspicions was filmed by the cameras placed by the police in the hospital room that documented the torture: he was filmed on several occasions while he was inserting his fingers deeply into the child's mouth .
The investigative hypothesis is that the man aimed to cause permanent problems for his son, so as to obtain future subsidies and public aid for his conditions . The young man - who was arrested red-handed by the police - had only a small precedent for fraud, and does not appear to have ever worked.
In this terrible story, the 23-year-old's wife (who has another child) had no responsibility . The woman had told investigators that she had never noticed what her husband was doing when he approached the cot. The child's father ended up in prison in October 2024, and was released last January. His line of defense is that he did not think he was harming his son, but performed those maneuvers - with his hand wrapped in gauze - only to try to help the child breathe better . A theory that the Prosecutor's Office, which is about to request his indictment, has never believed.
The images from the police cameras, which filmed those who entered and exited the child's room from October 24 to 26, 2024, left little doubt. The investigation was triggered because the doctors at the hospital became suspicious when they saw that the newborn, despite the appropriate care they were giving him, was getting worse instead of improving. And this was happening at the same time as, or immediately after, visits to the room by the family members .
