The suspect, named as student Chiara Petrolini, was taken into custody after DNA tests allegedly proved her to be the mother of one of the babies. A second body was later found.
The suspect has been named as 22-year-old university student Chiara PetroliniAn Italian village has been left reeling after it emerged that a local babysitter is at the centre of a 'house of horrors' infanticide investigation, with the bodies of two newborn babies found buried in her garden.
A leaked autopsy said the baby had been buried alive as 'soil was found in the lungs' and last week a second body was discovered, but as yet no further details have been revealed as to the cause of death. Further tests on the body of the first baby to be discovered have confirmed the father is the woman's boyfriend, a 22-year-old named locally as Emanuele.
She then allegedly killed the baby and hid him in the back garden. Just two days later, she went on holiday with her parents to the US, a trip which had been planned for some time. Petrolini allegedly looked up how to abort 'a second child' online, according to Italian newspaper La Repubblica.Petrolini concealed her pregnancy by eating almost nothing for months, maintaining her slim figure even when she was full term, Italian media reports
A close friend of Petrolini told La Repubblica that before leaving for her holiday the young woman had displayed 'a calm that now scares me'. 'I don't know her that well but I know her boyfriend very well, she is a friend of my girlfriend but I know him.Local mayor Simone Dall'Orto said: 'They appeared to be the classic, normal family. The girl is a model university student, she is studying law.
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