Overview
- Surveillance cameras captured Hutter climbing through the hedge and over the fence to leave Casa Don Girelli in Ronco all’Adige on December 28, prompting an immediate alert to authorities.
- Roughly ten minutes later she was hit on Provincial 19 near Via Saletto by a Volvo driven by a 77-year-old man from the Verona area and was taken unconscious to Borgo Trento hospital’s intensive care unit.
- Investigators have not determined whether she was crossing the road or on the shoulder at the time, and they have not ruled out a voluntary act pending the ongoing probe.
- Hutter had received a four-year-eight-month plea deal in 2024 after the July 2023 crash in Santo Stefano di Cadore that killed three members of a family, which reports say was facilitated by insurance compensation to relatives.
- Family members of the 2023 victims criticized what they see as inadequate supervision at the facility, with the child’s grandfather voicing both compassion for Hutter and anger over oversight.