Overview
- The court-appointed CTU filed its final perizia on June 8, saying the three children should return home as soon as conditions compatible with their wellbeing are in place.
- The report documents that the children arrived at the casa famiglia with clear hygiene problems, gaps in basic schooling and signs of neuropsychological immaturity.
- While in the Vasto care facility the children began schooling, improved in reading, writing and arithmetic, and kept regular emotional contact with their mother and visits with their father.
- Family consultants Tonino Cantelmi and Martina Aiello formally contested the CTU’s methods, arguing there was insufficient direct observation and other methodological flaws that judges must weigh.
- Judges at the Juvenile Court of L'Aquila now have one month to rule on restoring parental responsibility, a decision that will depend on the CTU’s conditions, the disputed expert critiques and the municipality’s progress on housing for the parents.