Elena Del Pozzo, her mother’s confession: “I went to pick her up in kindergarten, then I took her to the camp”

“A force never felt before.” Martina Patti, 23, confessed to investigators that he had killed her child, Elena Del Pozzo, by stabbing her with a knife. “I don’t remember the little girl’s reaction as I hit her, perhaps it was stillbut I have a very clouded memory ».

There was no car with three hooded and armed people, the gang of kidnappers he had spoken of in tears the day before to the carabinieri of Mascalucia, his town. No one had kidnapped her little girl: she was all a show. It was she, Martina, who had fetched little Elena from her kindergarten, then took her home.

“Elena he wanted to eat a pudding then he watched cartoons from my mobile. In the meantime, I was ironing, ”she said. “In the evening we were supposed to go to a friend of mine for her birthday and Elena was happy. Then we went out to go to my mother’s house, but then I removed everything ».

And again: «I don’t remember if I brought any objects from home with me. It was about 2.30 pm, we went to the camp that I indicated to the carabinieri ». And then he adds: «It was the first time I took the child to that field … I have the image of the knife, but I don’t remember where I got it. I don’t remember hurting the little girl, I just remember crying a lot. “

What happened instead is that Elena was killed with seven stab wounds in the neck and back. His little body was placed in five plastic bags, then covered with dirt.

“Perhaps I realized that the child was dead and I didn’t know what to do. Soon after I called Elena’s father, but I was so upset that I didn’t understand what I was saying … so I went to my parents’ house, I was very confused and what had happened didn’t seem real to me ».

Martina says she doesn’t remember where she put the knife. “Before going to my parents I changed my clothes, but the clothes I wore when I was with the little girl weren’t stained with blood, I was stained only in my arms and I remember crying hard. When I met my parents and Alessandro (the former partner and father of little Elena) I invented the story that they had stopped us and that they had kidnapped the child ».

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