Overview

• Petrolini, 22, has been confined to her Vignale di Traversetolo home since September 2024 while facing charges that she killed and buried her two newborns.
• The Corte d’Assise di Parma granted her defense’s request to take the mandatory criminology exam for her Educational Sciences degree remotely.
• She is a second-year student at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia where criminology is a required exam in her curriculum.
• Her trial opened in late June and is set to resume on September 15 with a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation to assess her mental state during the alleged offenses.
• Consultants from both the prosecution and defense will assist the court psychiatrists and have already offered conflicting views on her criminal capacity.