“My name is Ilaria Salamander, I’m a criminal lawyer from Rome and I’m making this video from the Child Jesus. I’m with my son, who had to go to day hospital for a problem he’s had since birth, and for which he undergoes this hospitalization at least once every six months. I sent a request to the Court for the postponement of the hearing I had today for obvious and legitimate reasons, yet this judge did not deem it necessary to postpone the hearing”.
Thus begins the video published on social networks on Friday 14 April by the lawyer Ilaria Salamandra, of the Court of Rome, to denounce the way in which her request to postpone the hearing to be able to be next to her child was not accepted. «He said that my impediment is not legitimate because his father could have accompanied himdespite the fact that I have followed my son, even with the support of my husband, since birth”.
According to what was reported by the lawyer, the judge nevertheless asked to find the number of the Bambino Gesù hospital in order to «contact me to obtain my authorization to hear the witness. To wash your conscience», continues the video. “All this while my son was under anesthesia. This is the world we live in. These are the abuses that we lawyer mothers have to submit to. These are the delusions of omnipotence of a certain judiciary, the one made up of small women and small men ».
In times when support for motherhood and parenting is being talked about, in a country that is aging visibly, it is no wonder that the video has been widely shared. Great solidarity was immediately expressed with the lawyer who in her post reassured those who wrote to her by explaining that her child, fortunately, is fine. The president of the Council of the Rome Bar Association, Paolo Nesta, also expressed his opinion on the case, underlining that it is not the first time that a similar case has occurred within the Court of Rome. «We recall the case of a colleague who was denied the legitimate impediment on the day of the presumed date of delivery. Now this new case, which damages not only the dignity and decorum of the legal profession, but the dignity of women: absurd, in an age when we talk about gender equality and what to do to eliminate inequality. It is an intolerable episode that the Order of Rome stigmatizeswe are ready to act in all the appropriate forums”.
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