The parents of an 18-year-old
Italian girl who died after they denied her chemotherapy for
leukemia and instead ordered the untried 'Hamer method' both got
two years in jail for her death Thursday.
Lino and Rita Bottaro were found guilty of culpable
negligence in the death of Eleonora.
The girl contracted a severe form of leukemia in 2015 and
decided on her parents' advice to refuse chemotherapy.
She died a year later.
The Hamer method, using vitamins and cortisone, was found to
have led to her early death.
The parents were found to have contacted a Padua-based family
doctor who had been struck off because of his 'alternative'
cancer treatments, Paolo Rossaro.
The mother reacted to the verdict by saying "I believe in
divine justice, I didn't do anything wrong, I'd do over again
everything that I did, only God knows how much my daughter
suffered."
Sentences of up to two years are normally suspended in Italy.
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