The desperation to see the little body of her child immobile in the cradle, the call to 118 and the useless attempts of the rescuers. In via Sanna Randaccio , in the city center, the tragedy takes place just before dawn yesterday: Anaja, six days old, flew to heaven in her sleep.
For now it could be " cot death ". For the parents, a Pakistani couple who have been living in Cagliari for some time, and for the other four children, an impossible test to face with the inevitable consequences: policemen at home, together with the experts of the Forensics, for the ritual questions, the little body brought at the University Hospital of Monserrato, the waiting for the autopsy ordered by the prosecutor.
Acts due for what appears to be a tragedy: no signs of violence or anything else on the body of the little girl, discharged the day before from the Brotzu hospital after birth. The examination to understand the causes of death should be performed on Friday by the medical examiner Roberto Demontis team.
The phone call
It is not yet six when the parents of little Anaja, born last Wednesday at Brotzu without any complications or anything else strange. The baby is motionless in the cradle . Seems not to breathe. They are moments of panic. The immediate call to 118 triggers the intervention of two ambulances, one of the volunteers and immediately after a medicalized one. The situation is desperate. Rescuers can do little. The child's father and mother receive the news that every parent would never want to hear in their life: Anaja's little heart no longer beats.
Then the patrols of the Flying Squad and the Forensics arrive on the spot, the couple explains that they noticed that the newborn was motionless and that she seemed not to breathe .
The decision
It is the coroner Roberto Demontis who reaches the house to carry out a first check on the little body of the little girl. that could suggest anything other than cot death.
