A 19-year-old Italian woman who
killed her 41-year-old father amid his umpteenth episode of
domestic abuse against her and her mother near Rome at the
weekend acted in self defence, prosecutors said Tuesday.
She was therefore released from house arrest.
"At the moment the girl is under investigation for culpable
excess of self defence but it is (likely) that in the next two
weeks we may ask the preliminary investigations judge to shelve
the case because the girl, according to what we have found,
acted to defend herself," said Tivoli chief prosecutor Francesco
Menditto.
Deborah Sciacquatori hit her father Lorenzo over the head at
Monterotondo to stop him attacking her mother and herself, the
prosecutor said.
Before hitting him, the woman said "Dad, stop, don't do
anything else," according to witnesses of the row, the
prosecutor said.
Then, after striking him, she said "don't leave me, I love
you", the witnesses have told prosecutors, Menditto said.
"These words have been confirmed by witnesses to the fight,"
he said.
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