the case of bari
Noon November 10, 2016 – 10:56
The suspicions of physicians
From the November 19, 2015 to February 13, the day of the death, the little girl of three months that, according to the Prosecutor’s office of Bari would have been stifled and killed by the father, 29-year-old Joseph Difonzo, she was hospitalized for a total of 76 days. The last hospitalization until the day of death, had been in the pediatric hospital Giovanni XXIII of Bari. To meet the health-care personnel, who then contacted the juvenile Court, was the finding that the small, when he was in the hospital, 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, – says the Prosecutor of Bari in a note – allowed-to ensure that the babies who died had been the subject of several aggressive actions and violent hatched against him by the father, subject a carrier of the Syndrome of Munchausen”.
A child’s eye witness
There is an eye-witness, a boy of three and a half years that he was hospitalized in the hospital room of the small Emanuela Difonzo, who would have attended an attempt of suffocation of the same little girl of three months by the father, 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. Towards 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 hour s later, the 29-year-old would have tried again, this time managing to kill the daughter.
Had tried to attack the Pope
it Would have killed the daughter and then “used the death of the small, with a mode and contents to be cringe, only for the purpose of speculating on the same, in an attempt to invoke the responsibility of the doctors and to get compensation for the damage.” Reveals the passage of the ordinance of remand in prison today notified to the father. According to the investigations of the carabinieri, coordinated by the pm Simona Filoni, the man would have also “used the story of the death of her daughter to stir up feelings of pity and compassion” and get donations from friends and acquaintances. In the numerous phone calls intercepted, even with the Vatican, whose 29-year-old asked to speak with the Pope, the man that told the lies about his economic needs due to the death of the daughter, from the payment of technical advisors to the lawyer. The investigations, however, have documented that would have then used that money to buy food, cigarettes, telephone charges and fuel.
The little you could save
The small Emanuela Difonzo, who died on the 13th of February 2016, just three months in the pediatric hospital Giovanni XXIII of Bari – according to the Prosecutor’s office of Bari stifled by his father – maybe it would have been able to save. From the acts of the inquiry that has now led to the arrest of the man, the 29-year-old Altamura (Bari) Joseph Difonzo, it emerges that the family situation and of the danger the girl had been reported from time to the juvenile Court of Bari. Already in December last year, after the third hospitalization, the primary of Neonatology, Policlinico di Bari, had reported to the juvenile Court a suspicion of possible abuse suffered by Emanuela, in the belief that the respiratory problems of the child did not result from a medical condition. On the following 9 January, however, the small one was discharged, and admitted again the day after for a respiratory crisis. Only on January 15, the small was entrus ted to the social services of Altamura for a place in a community. The measure, however, on the basis of the report of the social workers, the liquidator appointed by the Court and the declarations of the parents, he was suspended on the 25th of January and then permanently revoked on 29 January. The Court riaffidò so the baby to Joseph Difonzo and the girlfriend, but have home visits starting from 2 February. A week after She was hospitalized again and on the 13th of February he died.
Syndrome of Munchausen’s, a psychiatric pathology, the first case in Italy
When the abuse goes to the too much care. Fit into this category, according to the prosecutor of Bari, the case of the father of Altamura who allegedly murdered the figla. Abuse submerged exercised most often by the mothers. People suffering from a mental disorder that leads them to cause physical harm to the child to attract attention to themselves. The child is then used to satisfy a desire, the unconscious, the parent to put in place a personal drama and reinforce their relationship with doctors or the hospital environment. The experts call it “the Syndrome of Munchausen by proxy”: the abuse that comes from too much care. The parent invents symptoms and diseases to cure which subjects the child to a host of medical and diagnostic, often invasive, unnecessary, and unjustified. The man, in fact, as documented by the investigation, has been hospitalized in the previous years this event for 28 times, on one occasion, after having simulated a su icide attempt. In America the phenomenon is now quite widespread, almost as much as the sexual abuse in the family. An element that makes this abuse is little identified is the fact that parents who exercise this type of violence are apparently particularly anxious and attentive to their child. This is deceptive even the doctors hardly come to think that it was rather the parent to poison or suffocate the child, or indirectly to have caused death.
The arrest for sexual assault
on The 9th of April last, Joseph Difonzo was the recipient of another ordinance of remand in prison for sexually aggravated to the detriment of a minor, the daughter of a friend of his live-in girlfriend. “During the whole period of the investigation – write to the magistrates, – the arrested person has changed multiple times version of the facts while also getting to give the impression to the investigators that on the night of the murder, her daughter was alone in the room with her, however, contradicted by the findings of procedure, including the statements of his partner, and by other evidence acquired”.
November 10, 2016 | 10:56
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