How Come A Parent, Convicted for Killing Her Son, Walks Free ?
Friday, April 27th, 2007 -- BuzzurroI don’t know how to explain this to our non-Italian readers.
Annamaria Franzoni, an Italian woman who has been sentenced to 16 years of prison for brutally killing her 3-year old son, will not serve a single day in jail.
In 2002, she bludgeoned multiple times her son’s head. In 2004, she was sentenced to 30 years, and today the appeal court reduced the sentence to 16 years.
I know my limits, so I know I’m not able to explain to our non-Italian readers how this was possible.
Did they give the reasons why the sentence was reduced? Is she (has she) been receiving mental health help? Will she be going to an institution? I saw an interview with her some time ago and she seemed completely crazy. Calm, cool and collected, but completely out of her mind. And what about her husband? Has he played any kind of role in helping the courts reduce her time?
I don’t have a clue either how 16 years get not a day… But it sounds like something that would happen in Canada as well… Mentallly insane or what?
ro, expatraveler:
The sentence has been reduced because “she suffers from hysterical neurosis”.
Moreover, the sentence will be reduced from 16 to 13 years.
She will have a 3-year discount as part of a national pardon done for 13,000 criminals on a total of 61,000 inmates.
But she won’t spend a single day in jail: Italian law states that inprisonment would be legitimate only if she would constitute one of these imminent dangers: escape from law enforcement, distortion of evidence, or a threat to others, and none of them would apply to her, according to the court.
OMG, hysterical neurosis…sounds like something Sigmund Freud would diagnose. And distortion of evidence, wasn’t there something about the first inquiry on evidence found missing? Something about the pajamas the child was wearing?
What a sordid, sordid story.
I don’t think that this can be explained to the Italian readers either. I just don’t understand…..
Cyn