Lucrezia Ciotti It seemed like an ordinary day in Santa Lucia sopra Contesse, until an extreme gesture shattered the quiet of the neighborhood. A mother he throws himself from the balcony with her baby girl of a few months in her arms, falling from the first floor of a building. The dramatic epilogue spread yesterday evening, shaking the entire community.
Mother Jumps From Balcony With Newborn Daughter, Tragic Epilogue in Messina
La tragedy It occurred shortly before 13pm yesterday, Monday 16 June, in the Santa Lucia sopra Contesse neighbourhood of Messina. A mother threw herself from the balcony with her little girl just two and a half months: both fell from the first floor of a building, a flight of a few meters.
It was the people who discovered what had happened neighbors, who arrived after having heard the thud: mother and daughter were lying on the ground in the backyard of the building. It was one of them who called for help. Police cars arrived at the scene of the accident, flanked by forensic officers and investigators from the Flying Squad.
The mother, one womens about forty years old and a housewife, was rushed to the Policlinico with a red code. She is currently hospitalized and under close observation. For the small, however, the epilogue was tragic: she arrived in desperate conditions, she is dead despite the attempts of the pediatric intensive care doctors, who did everything possible to save her.
Mother Jumps From Balcony With Newborn Daughter, Tragic Epilogue in Messina: Investigations
According to what has emerged, the woman may have been suffering from a serious form of postpartum depression. The little girl's father, deeply shocked and destroyed by grief, was heard by the investigators.
The first investigations, coordinated by the Messina Public Prosecutor's Office, focus on the hypothesis of a voluntary gesture, although the possibility of a tragic domestic accident cannot be completely ruled out. The victim, a newborn baby who – according to local sources – was called Elisa, was the firstborn of the couple. The mother is a housewife, while the father, 45 years old, works in a company specializing in automatic gates.
At the scene of the tragedy, the Scientific Police have carried out detailed investigations. At the same time, investigators are collecting testimonies from family members and neighbors to reconstruct the exact dynamics of the events.