One-year-old baby dies in Mogliano Veneto, babysitter investigated

Tragedy in the Treviso area, in Mogliano Veneto, where a one-year-old child died suddenly in the night between Thursday and Friday. An autopsy has been ordered on the little boy's body while his 21-year-old babysitter is being investigated for manslaughter, after trying in vain to resuscitate him while waiting for 118 to arrive.

The alarm went off shortly after midnight, when the Suem 118 of the Marca was alerted by the child's family. It was the babysitter who noticed that he wasn't breathing, the only adult in the house at the time: she had put him to bed shortly before and then, in the company of the child's 13-year-old sister, she went to another room. Here, according to what was reconstructed with his lawyer, the babysitter had still heard him cry.

After a while, she went into the bedroom to check that everything was okay. And it was a shock, because he saw it as blue.

Immediately, in contact with the 118 health workers, he tried to practice resuscitation maneuvers, which he knows because he is about to graduate in Nursing.

Then the rescuers arrived. The little boy, who had no diagnosed previous pathologies, was in cardiac arrest. The doctors in turn started the resuscitation maneuvers and proceeded with the intubation and then took him to the emergency room of the Ca' Foncello hospital in Treviso, where the resuscitation maneuvers continued for a long time with the assistance of anesthetists and paediatricians. All in vain: at half past one the doctors declared his death.

An autopsy has been ordered to understand what caused the cardiac arrest. And an investigation was opened, entrusted to prosecutor Gabriella Cama, with the babysitter being registered in the register of crime suspects. A necessary act, explains the lawyer Lisa Caldato, as the 21-year-old was the only adult present in the house at the time of the tragedy.

"It is a huge tragedy first and foremost for the family, but also for the girl who was babysitting - underlines the lawyer -. I hope that the autopsy can confirm that it was a sudden death. When I was young I also babysat many children, I can imagine what this girl is feeling". The relationship between the young woman, distraught and unable to explain what could have happened, and the parents of the little victim goes beyond the professional aspect: "The family - explains Caldato - have known the girl since she was born, there is a very strong friendship."