She was incapable of understanding and wanting when on the evening of 2 January 2022 Adalgisa Gamba killed her two and a half year old son , found lifeless in the body of water in front of the beach of Torre del Greco, in the province of Naples: this was decided by the Court of Assizes of Naples which acquitted the woman of the charge of premeditated murder.

The verdict was greeted by the screams of the accused's husband in room 115 of the New Palace of Justice in Naples, with the Court still present: "You are a murderer", he shouted at her.

The judge found Adalgisa Gamba not attributable at the time of the crime and applied the security measure of probation, for no less than 15 years, at a rehabilitation facility. The reasons for the sentence will be given within 90 days.

According to the experts appointed by the first criminal section of the Court of Assizes of Naples, the death of the child would most likely also be followed by the suicide of the mother. «It was a particularly difficult process, both professionally and humanly, but justice has finally been done. Gisa was acquitted because she is a sick person. Now, step by step, we must help her return to normality ", said the lawyer Salvatore Del Giudice, Adalgisa Gamba's lawyer, after the verdict.

"Fundamental for today's verdict were the psychiatric reports which helped the judges to enter Gisa's mind and shed light on her pathology ", comments clinical criminologist Alessandra Bramante, consultant to the defendant's lawyer. Adalgisa Gamba «is a sick and fragile woman, who remained in prison for two and a half years, a place incompatible with her mental conditions, where she also attempted to kill herself. She began to feel depressed during pregnancy, due to her life history but also due to important family conditions. Depression that worsens after the birth of her second child who begins to demonstrate problematic behaviors on which Adalgisa fixates, terrified at the idea that her son could be sick like his mother who poor Adalgisa cared for all her life. Fear which in the last period becomes a delirious reality which first leads her to lose weight, not sleep and to the deepest anguish which that day pushed her towards the sea with her child in her arms to find peace and put an end to a a life that Adalgisa no longer had the strength to live. The disconcerting thing - concludes the consultant of the lawyer Del Giudice - is that, despite being faced with an evident clinical situation and requests for help from Gamba herself, .