Carabinieri found the girl, just over three years old, dead in a social housing flat on via Baluardo in Tortona during the night of 22 to 23 October 2026. The mother was heard by the duty magistrate and arrested.
The carabinieri said checks and inquiries are still under way, and no article gives a cause of death or a time of death. Il Fatto Quotidiano describes the mother as detained.
The mother held sole custody, but a recent court hearing had opened a path to bring the girl closer to her father, who is described as violent toward his former partner but not toward the child, according to La Stampa.
La Stampa reports that the woman allegedly killed her daughter after being disturbed by a possible decision to reunite the girl with her father. Investigators have not confirmed this account in the articles.
Carabinieri found a girl of just over three years old dead inside a home in Tortona, in the province of Alessandria, during the night between Thursday 22 and Friday 23 October 2026. The flat is one of several social housing units on via Baluardo, near the church of Santa Maria Canale, managed by the Agape cooperative, according to La Stampa and Il Fatto Quotidiano. Only the child's mother was in the home at the time. The duty magistrate heard her straight away, and she was then arrested, as the carabinieri reported to ANSA. Investigators have not yet established how the girl died, and the carabinieri said checks and inquiries are still under way to clarify what happened and who bears responsibility.
The woman is in her thirties and of Ukrainian origin, according to Il Fatto Quotidiano and La Stampa. Il Fatto Quotidiano describes her as having been detained, while ANSA uses the word arrested for the same step. The girl's father is of Italian origin, the reports say, but none of the articles name him or any other relative. Il Messaggero reports that, according to a first reconstruction, the woman held sole custody of the child. The reports describe a family situation marked by conflict between the mother and the father.
Sole custody rested with the mother, but La Stampa reports that a recent hearing in court had opened a path to bring the girl closer to her father. According to the same account, the father was described as violent toward his former partner but not toward the child. La Stampa also reports that the mother was deeply disturbed by a possible decision to reunite the girl with her father, and it presents this as the background to the death. La Stampa writes that the woman allegedly killed her daughter, with the method still to be established. These are La Stampa's reports, and the carabinieri's statements in the articles describe the inquiry as still ongoing without confirming a motive.
The five reports differ in emphasis. ANSA and Il Messaggero rely on the carabinieri's account of the discovery and the arrest. Il Fatto Quotidiano and La Stampa add the family history, which they attribute to La Stampa's reconstruction. The death is placed in the night between 22 and 23 October, but no article gives a time of death or a cause. Whether formal charges have been filed is not stated in the reports.
The investigation is focused on reconstructing the events of that night and the family situation. The articles were published on Friday 23 October, so they reflect only what was known at that point, and later findings could change the account.
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Carabinieri found the girl dead inside a social housing flat in Tortona during the night between 22 and 23 October 2026. The only other person in the home, her mother, was heard by the duty magistrate and arrested.
AI text based on reports by Open, Il Fatto Quotidiano, Il Messaggero and other publishers. Published .