Bari, choked the daughter of 3 months in the bed of the hospital: stopped after 9 months of investigation – The Republic

In February last, has killed the daughter of three months, suffocating her in the bed, pediatric hospital Giovanni XXIII, Bari, where he was hospitalized. With this accusation the police have arrested Giuseppe di Fonzo, 29 years old, Altamura (Bari). According to the prosecution, supported by the pm Simona Filoni, more times the small would have been the victim of ill-treatment by his father and was put in the hospital. The eyewitness is a child of 3 years hospitalized in the same department.

The man from last February is in prison with the accusation of sexual violence against a young girl, the daughter of a family friend. After you suffocated the little one, has asked for help to the staff of the hospital saying that the girl had felt bad. The investigations accepted as in the three months of life the newborn multiple times has been accompanied in the hospital by his father for illnesses that, according to the indictment, had been caused by mistreatment. Giuseppe di Fonzo is suffering from the syndrome of Munchausen.

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The particular psychiatric condition consists in the attempt, of those affected, to attract attention to itself. The man, as documented by the investigation, has been hospitalized in the previous years this event for 28 times, on one occasion, after having simulated a suicide attempt. According to the consultants of the Prosecutor would be transferred to the daughter and the own disorder. The mother would have been in the dark. Between the 19 November 2015 to 13 February, the day of death, the baby had been hospitalized for a total of 76 days. The last hospitalization until the day of death, was to John XXIII.

A child of three and a half years that he was hospitalized in the hospital room of the small would have attended an attempt of suffocation of the same little girl of three months by the father, on the morning previous to the day on which Emanuela was killed. The child has been subjected in recent months to listen to protected and confirmed the episode mimicking the gestures seen to man.

Toward noon of the 12th February last, as ascertained by investigators, in the room there were only the father of Emanuela, the small and the child admitted in the bed next to you. At a certain point, Joseph Difonzo would be distracted by making him play with her mobile phone, and you would have then approached to the bed of the daughter by touching it and squeezing them on the forehead, mouth, neck and belly. Immediately after the girl would start to feel bad. The intervention of doctors and nurses saved her life, but twelve hours later, the 29-year-old would have tried again, this time managing to kill the daughter.

To meet the staff of the hospital,

, which has then contacted the juvenile court, was the finding that the small, when he was hospitalized, he was fine: he had no symptom of respiratory difficulties or diseases such as to justify the troubles that forced them to shelters. “The results of investigation – explain by the Attorney – allowed-to ensure that the babies who died had been the subject of several aggressive actions and violent hatched against him by the father”.

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province of Bari

Syndrome Munchausen

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Giuseppe di Fonzo