Overview
- The L’Aquila minors’ court kept the three siblings in a protected facility and appointed expert Simona Ceccoli to complete a psychodiagnostic evaluation within four months.
- Days earlier, the Court of Appeal upheld the suspension of parental responsibility and directed fresh private interviews of the children with an interpreter to avoid conditioning.
- Rulings cite risks tied to healthcare, education and socialization, noting no registered pediatrician until July 2025 and an acute bronchitis in one daughter that went unreported and untreated.
- Assessments flagged severe learning deficits—the eldest cannot read or write in Italian or English—and raised doubts over homeschooling paperwork and permits for housing modifications.
- Supervised contact continues, with the mother seeing the children daily and the father on limited visits, and a special Christmas-day lunch visit for the father is being considered.