Overview
- Prosecutors in Parma requested 26 years in prison for Petrolini on two counts of premeditated murder and two counts of concealing a corpse.
- Petrolini delivered a seven-minute statement to the Corte d'assise, insisting she never intended harm and claiming she was never sure she was pregnant.
- The prosecution presented photos in court and referred to the infants by the registered names Angelo Federico and Domenico Matteo, whose remains were found in the family garden.
- Investigators cited phone searches about inducing labor and hiding a pregnancy, alleged harmful behaviors during gestation, and forensic claims including cord cutting and hemorrhagic shock.
- Court-appointed experts deemed Petrolini mentally fit; prosecutors acknowledged youth as a mitigating factor but weighed it equally to aggravating elements, with defense arguments due March 27 and a ruling expected April 24.