Overview
- Court-appointed psychiatrists Maria Carla Verga and Laura Ghiringhelli report no mental illness that diminished Chiara Petrolini’s capacity at the time of the alleged acts, and deem her fit to stand trial.
- The assessment portrays the 22-year-old as emotionally immature and fragile, with a narcissistic vulnerability that can express as vindictive anger, based on psychodiagnostic work by Mauro Di Lorenzo.
- Defense psychiatrist Pietro Petrini contests the findings, citing a profound alteration with dissociative features and an unconscious denial of pregnancy.
- The perizia will be examined at a February 13 hearing before the Corte d’Assise of Parma as proceedings on double aggravated homicide and concealment of bodies continue.
- Prosecutors allege two births a year apart—May 12, 2023 and August 7, 2024—and the killing and burial of both infants in a garden discovered in August 2024, with a possible life sentence if she is convicted.