Overview
- Chiara Petrolini, whom a Parma jury convicted Friday, received 24 years and three months for the death of her second baby.
- Judges cleared her of the 2023 homicide and reclassified one corpse-related charge to the lesser offense of concealing a body, and they ordered damages to the children’s father and his parents.
- The court recognized premeditation and the parent–child relationship as aggravating factors, citing prosecutors’ evidence of online searches about ending a pregnancy.
- Investigators said both infants were born alive and later died, and the bodies surfaced after a family dog unearthed one in August 2024 and police found the other in the same garden.
- The chief prosecutor said he will consider appealing the 2023 acquittal, while the defense signaled it may appeal after the court files its reasoning despite a psychiatric report finding Petrolini fully responsible.