L’Aquila, June 9 (LaPresse) – The priority is the well-being of minors: for this reason, the reunification of the so-called “family of the woods” requires new conditions, highlighted by developmental deficiencies in the children in terms of education, health and socialization. This is stated in writing, after more than six years of observation and testing of the three minors and their parents, by the court-appointed technical consultant of the Juvenile Court of L’Aquila, in a 50-page expert report that completes an earlier 200-page document already filed. This key assessment attests to the children’s “neuropsychological immaturity” and highlights the “parental incapacity” of Nathan Trevallion and Catherine Birmingham. The judges, in one month, will have to rule on the order issued last November suspending parental responsibility and removing the three children — six-year-old twins and an eight-year-old child — from their parents. The case file also includes a counter-expertise from the defence, which from the beginning of the case has challenged the procedural method. There is no prejudice against the parents’ lifestyle; rather, it is an analysis carried out correctly on the possible impact that their educational lifestyle may have had on the children’s development, the court-appointed expert clarified. In light of the parenting deficiencies found, the report concludes with the hope that the necessary conditions for the children’s return home, compatible with their well-being, can be established as soon as possible.
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