He had abandoned his disabled son , who had been forced to eat from his neighbors' waste to eat . A mother was sentenced in Turin to five years and four months , in short, together with her partner, for having reduced the woman's son, who at twenty years old weighed thirty kilos, to the point of dying .

The deputy prosecutor Cesare Parodi, as reported by the newspaper La Repubblica, underlined in the indictment that he, who has been dealing with the protection of vulnerable groups for years, had in rare cases seen «such a dramatic picture: it would have been a matter of hours, not of days, and this little boy would be dead . He was so skinny that I have only seen similar images in concentration camps."

The young man was full of bruises on his body, with worms coming out of his ears : he arrived at the hospital so thin and so unconscious that the doctors didn't know if they would have been able to save him. Two months of hospitalization and then he was hosted in a residential community.

The young man, suffering from mental retardation, according to the indictment, was subjected "to a series of violent conduct", to "constraints to the bed with belts, abuse, material deprivation of food", "making him live in terrible hygienic conditions" , so much so as to have determined the clinical picture found in the hospital on August 7, 2021. So hungry that the neighbors had testified to having seen him rummaging through their garbage in the garden, to eat.

The woman, who has two other daughters, had defended herself by claiming that she was leaving the house to go to work and that it was her partner who had to look after the boy.

The court sentenced them both for mistreatment and injuries, suspended parental rights for the mother and ordered a provisional payment of 25 thousand euros for the boy.

(Unioneonline/vl)