The parents of a nine-month-old baby
girl who allegedly died of maltreatment bought a car on the day
she died, a prosecutor told their trial Wednesday.
Marco Falchi and Olivia Beatrice Grazioli, accused in the
death of Aurora, bought a 9,300-euro car "on the very same day
of the death," said prosecutor Milano Cristian Barilli,
presenting a purchase document.
The pair, who risk 24 years in jail, are accused of keeping
Aurora malnourished and in dirty hygienic conditions, causing
her death through "serious dehydration" and "chronic and acute
under-nourishment" that resulted in cardio-vascular arrest.
The car purchase contradicts the couple's assertion that
the condition of the child were not due to deliberate
maltreatment but to their alleged poverty, the prosecutor said.
Aurora died on the night of 27-27 February last year.
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