Alessia Pifferi sentenced to life imprisonment: she let her 18-month-old daughter die of starvation

For Alessia Pifferi the sentence has arrivedlife sentence. Life in prison for letting her 18-month-old daughter Diana die of starvation, left alone at home for six days in July 2022. This is the decision of the Court of Assizes of Milan which accepted the prosecution's request and instead the defense's acquittal, which said that Pifferi did not want to kill her daughter, was set aside. The first instance sentence highlights the woman's conscience and will.

«It is a fair sentence, a first step towards ascertaining the truth. I have always believed in it and with this verdict they have brought the victim back to the center of the trial” said prosecutor Francesco De Tommasi. «I saw a woman who played a part, I expected life imprisonment. Alessia Pifferi was described there as a victim and a child. In this trial there is only one little girl called Diana and there is only one victim called Diana. There is a liar called Alessia Pifferi, there is only one actress called Alessia Pifferi. Give her the hope of compensating through the suffering of punishment for the pain that will first flow through her.”

The words of the accused's mother were immediate: «It's an excruciating pain, she forgot she was a mother. He must pay for what he did. If she had repented and apologized to me… but she didn't. Now I wouldn't be able to tell her anything.” The sister also spoke Viviana who, with her mother, had become a civil party: «I think that the judges did what was right, because for me she never had extenuating circumstances, she was never crazy or with psychological problems. I hope that Diana can now fly away in peace.”

In the last hearing of the trial against the woman, the lawyer for the civil party, Emanuele De Mitri, and then the defense lawyer, Alessia Pontenani, spoke, who always asked for recognition of her mother's inability to understand and will. assisted. The civil party lawyer represents Alessia Pifferi's mother and sister: «We are faced with conduct of a voluntary nature, to a chilling case in which responsibility is clear following rock-solid evidence, never undermined by the results of the investigation. In this trial there is only one truth: Alessia Pifferi is guilty of the murder of little Diana, she knew very well that abandoning her daughter in that way would have caused her death.”

He explained that Pifferi independently decided to leave her daughter at home and that this murder has only one person and only one name. «The doubt about his imputability was dismantled by the expert opinion which states that he was capable of understanding and wanting at the time of the crime. In this room there was not a single element in his favor. We have witnessed attempts to justify homicidal conduct, petty commedia dell'arte attempts. He betrayed little Diana. Alessia Pifferi accepted the only possible outcome: death.”

For his clients he says that there is already a life sentence of pain and asks, without the granting of generic mitigating circumstances, to pay 200 thousand euros for the accused's mother and 150 thousand euros for her sister as damage to their image. Alessia Pifferi's lawyer had instead asked for acquittal. «It's clear that he didn't want to kill the little girl. Alessia had a terrible childhood, she grew up in neglect and abandonment.” she herself insisted on her condition, even though, despite her requests, there was no review of the psychiatric report which did not define her as incapable of understanding or will.

Prosecutor De Tommasi had requested a life sentence for Pifferi, arguing that he is guilty of voluntary homicide. «She uses lies to evade the obstacles that life throws at her every day, and to satisfy the many desires she has and for which she tries to appear different.” The prosecutor told how the little girl she died alone, of hunger and thirst, “after atrocious and terrible suffering with a process of progressive weakening of her vital functions”, while the mother was away with her partner. «Pifferi could have contacted the police, she could have done anything to save her, but she tells us that she didn't return home because of her partner. She came to tell us that she is not a murderer: but then why did she always want to justify to everyone that the little girl was not alone in the house? Because she knew very well that it was something that shouldn't be done, even a child knows that this is very serious behavior.”