Italian Girl Given Up For Adoption For Having Elderly Parents

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

A seven-year-old Italian girl would be given up for adoption as an appeal court in Turin, Italy considers her parents Gabriella De Ambrosis, 56, and Luigi De Ambrosis, 68, too old to care for her.

The couple's lawyer, Adriana Boscagli, said she will appeal the decision to the Supreme Court, according to the EFE agency. "They are absolutely capable of taking care of the little girl," said Boscagli.

The girl was born on May 26, 2010 through IVF. In September 2011, a juvenile court determined that the little girl had to be taken away from her parents after they faced a complaint of abandonment by a neighbor. The girl was then handed over to a foster family, and the case has been aired in the courts.

In its decision, the Turin court of appeal determined that the girl "will be orphaned very soon and, in addition, she will be forced to care for elderly parents, with possible serious pathologies or disabilities."

Gabriella, the mother, is a librarian while Luigi, the father, is a retired former mayor. According to the father, the abandonment complaint emerged from an incident in which he did not want to wake up the baby and let her sleep in his child seat inside his car - which was parked in front of his house - while he lowered some bags of car shopping.

If the Supreme Court rules against the couple, the girl can be definitively adopted by the family with which she has lived for six years.