Overview

• Three court-appointed experts — Giacomo Francesco Filippini, Nadia Bolognini and Stefano Benzoni — testified before the Corte d’Assise d’appello di Milano on September 24.
• They stated Pifferi was fully capable when she left her 18-month-old daughter, Diana, alone for six days in July 2022, an abandonment that led to the child’s death.
• The evaluation documented a neurodevelopmental disorder with residual cognitive fragility and affective immaturity, which the experts said had no significant effect on legal capacity.
• Benzoni noted a possible childhood neurodevelopmental disorder with mild intellectual disability as a hypothesis that lacks the documentation needed for confirmation.
• The conclusions mirror the first-degree finding by psychiatrist Elvezio Pirfo that there was no mental defect, and the life-sentence appeal remains under review.