Per reports, the 28-year-old mother who brutally killed her 8-year-old son, Loris, was sentenced to 30 years in prison. During an interview with investigators, the mother reportedly said that she had taken him to school and that he had disappeared by the time she came to collect him in the afternoon. Authorities began to suspect the boy’s mother, judge Reale said, when CCTV footage at the school did not back up her story.
According to the court documents, the mother, Veronica, killed her son after the boy reportedly discovered she was having an affair with his grandfather. Prosecutors said that the mother killed her son with electrical cables and abandoned his body in a remote area after he found out about their relationship.
During an interview with investigators, the mother reportedly said that she had taken him to school and that he had disappeared by the time she came to collect him in the afternoon. Authorities in Italy began to suspect the boy’s mother, judge Reale said, when CCTV footage at the school did not back up her story.
The boy’s body was eventually found by a hunter. He had suffered a severe head injury. She was found guilty of the boy’s murder and of concealing a body. The mother finally confessed that her son had been killed and blamed her husband’s father Andrea. She told an earlier court hearing that he had helped to plot and then carried out the murder because Loris had caught them having se*. Andrea denied the claim and is threatening to sue his daughter-in-law for slander, it has emerged.