There were no cases of cot death due to sudden regurgitation or anything else that killed her little children, a 4-month-old girl and a 2-month-old boy , in the space of just over a year. According to the Carabinieri and the Bergamo Prosecutor's Office , she was the one who suffocated them.
For this reason , a young 27-year-old mother - Monia Bortolotti - was arrested on charges of double infanticide.
The two shocking crimes were committed in Pedrengo , a town in the Bergamo area, one in 2021, the other in 2022.
And it was precisely the double tragedy, so similar and so close together, that immediately made the investigators suspicious.
After the death of her first baby, the 27-year-old and her husband almost immediately had a second child. But again, shortly after birth, the baby also died. More in-depth investigations were then undertaken, including the exhumation of the first child's little body, which was subjected to an autopsy.
A series of checks, to which were also added the repeated contradictions in the woman's stories that emerged during the interrogations, which finally led the investigators to collect sufficient elements to ascertain the harsh truth.
In both cases, at the time of the children's death, the woman - of Indian origin, but who arrived in Italy as a child and was adopted by an Italian family - was alone in the house and it was she who alerted the emergency services.
According to the Bergamo Carabinieri, the woman acted because she was "not able to handle the frustration of the children's prolonged crying".
«During the investigation – the investigators further explain – no mental disorder of the woman emerged from the examination of the suspect's health documentation before and after the criminal events, therefore it is believed that she acted in full ability to understand and want, appearing lucid, well oriented, with great capacity for language, rationalization and coldness , characteristics revealed, among other things, in the organization of her own defence, after discovering that she was suspected of the two infanticides".
For her part, in October, the woman wrote as follows on her Facebook profile: «Without my children I have no reason to be in this world... I have always said that I would not be able to survive if even my second child had left me … And it was true... I only carry on to protect the immense love I feel for my children from the prosecutor's accusations, because my children were kept like jewels , they were perfect, they were the joy I had been looking for all my life." And again, he explained: "Having had a psychologically aggressive mother, I cannot even conceive of verbal violence, much less physical violence, against any living being, much less my children!".
(Unioneonline/lf)
