Newborn hurled to death was love child

Turin June 23 (IANS/AKI) DNA tests showed that a newborn thrown to his death from a second floor apartment in northwest Italy last month was conceived when his mother had extramarital sex Turin daily La Stampa reported.

The full-term baby named Giovanni by doctors was found by a street sweeper in Settimo Torinese lying in the road early on May 30 but died half an hour after being rushed to Turin s Regina Margherita hospital by ambulance.

Giovanni s mother 34-year-old Valentina Ventura is under arrest for murder while her husband who claimed to have been unaware that she was pregnant is a witness in the ongoing investigation of the infant s death.

His version of events is truthful and credible La Stampa quoted the prosecutor spearheading the probe Giuseppe Ferrando as saying.

No family member attended Giovanni s funeral.

Ventura who has a young daughter reportedly denied during her pregnancy that she was expecting a child and said she gave birth alone at the family s apartment.

I threw my baby out of the window as soon as he was born in the bathroom. I don t remember anything else she allegedly told police.

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