Genoa, 5 June (LaPresse) – Her head shaved, bruises all over her body, and a mark on her leg from a blow inflicted with a shoe. These are just some of the signs of the brutality inflicted on little Beatrice, the two-year-old girl found dead in Bordighera last February. These details are set out in the court documents requesting and confirming the remand in custody of her mother, Emanuela Aiello, and her partner, Emanuel Iannuzzi, on charges of aggravated child abuse against the little girl. She died as a result of the brutal beatings she suffered, but also due to the injuries found on her body during the post-mortem examination. Iannuzzi is accused of active conduct, whilst the charges against the mother relate to omissions: she is alleged to have failed to act as a parent and guardian of the child, neither to rescue her from the violence nor to ensure she received the necessary medical care, despite the ‘state of persistent agony’ evident the day before her lifeless body was discovered on 9 February. From the requests for precautionary measures against Iannuzzi and Aiello, together with the testimonies of the little sisters, the final hours of the child emerge, whose body, according to investigators, was left lifeless ‘in a ruthless manner’ on the floor, wrapped in a blanket, in Iannuzzi’s house in Perinaldo. She was then transported, already lifeless, to the house in Bordighera, where the mother staged the call to the emergency services, claiming she had found the helpless child upon waking. It emerges from the case files and the initial findings of the post-mortem examination – the full report of which has yet to be filed – that the child’s head had also been shaved. Her hair had been cut into locks, as noted by one of the first witnesses interviewed by the prosecution, who remarked on the difference compared to when he last saw Beatrice, on the Saturday evening before her death, whilst she was in bed in the flat upstairs at the house in Perinaldo, left alone in the care of her two little sisters whilst her mother and her partner were consuming alcohol and hashish downstairs. The previous night, the girls had realised their little sister’s condition was worsening and had tried to call for help. They shouted from the window, hoping their mother would come to them. But they were locked inside, upstairs in the country house where their mother and her partner were on the ground floor. They did not hear them.
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