After faking a pregnancy and paying 20,000 euros to illegally adopt an infant, the Italian returned him 3 days later because he was mixed race.
20,000 euros. This is how much Francesca Zorzo paid to illegally adopt a child. And yet, three days later, she returned the baby to her birth mother. In question, his skin color. The girl is mixed race and the Italian has faked pregnancy nine times. Unable to explain the complexion of her offspring to those close to her, she preferred to abandon it.
The 35-year-old woman, already the mother of a child, will have to answer for her actions in court. Beside him on the dock, the Romanian woman who agreed to sell her daughter to him and a 48-year-old Moroccan who served as an intermediary. The police were in fact alerted by a civil registrar in the province of Latina, south-east of Rome. He had received a suspicious call.
Accidental pregnancy
Before committing her crime, Francesca Zorzo checked with the authorities. Over the phone, she asked how to report the birth of a child born at home. But she never showed up to do the paperwork. The police therefore went to his home.
Questioned by the police, the thirty-something explained the case. She wanted a second child but suffered two successive miscarriages. His companion is in prison. So she bought latex bellies to simulate pregnancy… and paid 20,000 euros to adopt the daughter of a young Romanian. The child was not born at this woman’s home but in a hospital in Nettuno.
The young woman accepted because she did not want to keep the baby. The pregnancy was accidental, resulting from a brief relationship with a Malian man, cultural mediator in Rome. It was also at the latter’s home that the girl was found by the authorities. While waiting to disentangle this situation – to say the least complex – the child was entrusted to a religious organization, with a view to adoption. This time in order.
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