Stifled in the cradle of the hospital just three months after the father suffering from a psychiatric disorder. Joseph Difonzo saw her daughter “as a scapegoat for all the frustrations, as it was the persecution to suppress”. With the charge of murder premeditated the police have notified the 29-year-old Altamura, an order of protective custody signed by the gip of bari Roberto Oliveri del Castillo. The man was already held from April to sexual assault on a fourteen-year-old, the daughter of a family friend.
“The conception of the diabolical,” writes the gip, which has led Difonzo to kill the daughter “in the most atrocious circumstances of time and place and in such as way creepy, in an abominable sequence of death”, it would reconnect to a psychiatric disorder. The 29-year-old is suffering from ‘syndrome, Munchausen by proxy’, a condition that leads sufferers to cause pain on himself and then on their children to attract attention. It is – according to claims of Attorney – the first case in Italy of a father, a murderer suffering from this syndrome.
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Before his daughter Emanuela was born 29 October 2015, Giuseppe was hospitalized 28 times in four years. From headaches to abdominal pain, fake attempted suicide to loss of sensation in the limbs. On one occasion, as recounted by his mother, invented of having ingested an entire pack of aspirins finishing the emergency of a hospital. When his daughter was born would have moved this malaise on her. Taking advantage of the moments in which the mother of the small – unaware of what was going on, and with a past of violence and social marginality – was not there, would have tried to suppress it, bringing it then to the emergency room for crisis breathing.
In its short life, the girl was hospitalized in four different hospitals for 67 days in less than three months until the night between the 12th and the 13th of February 2016, when she died. It is likely, however, would have to be. The primary in the Neonatology unit of the Policlinico di Bari, Nicola Laforgia, already in December he had reported to the juvenile court of his suspicions about possible abuse suffered by the girl during the admissions had not emerged on clinical grounds to explain the crisis breathing. In January the judges had placed for foster care in the community, revoked a few days later, on the basis of the report of the social workers of Altamura.
Riaffidata to the parents and back home on the 2nd of February, the small was again hospitalized after a week. According to the reconstruction made by the military of the core investigation of Bari and of the station of Altamura, co-ordinated by the pm Simona Filoni, on the morning of the 12th, around noon, Difonzo had already tried to stifle it. Eye-witness of this episode is to a child of three and a half years, hospitalized in the same room as the victim. The child, felt by the investigators had in their listening protected, has mimicked the gestures of the father of Emanuela, the pressure on the forehead, face, chest and belly, using a doll of rag.
Twelve hours later, Joseph Difonzo, alone with the little girl in the hospital room, succeeded in his intent. It would also have lowered the volume of the alarm system of the instrument, which monitored the values of the small patient, calling for help only a few minutes later, when it was safe for the daughter there was nothing more to do. From the acts of the investigation emerge the particular horrifying personality of the 29-year-old, who wanted to attend the autopsy, and that after killing the children,
he built a “castle of lies” to distance himself from the suspects.
He then also attempted to speculate on the death of the small to get a compensation, accusing the doctors and trying to “arouse feelings of pity and compassion” to get donations from friends and acquaintances, priests, and even usurers. In the numerous telephone calls intercepted, there is also the Vatican, whose 29-year-old asked to speak with the Pope.
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