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Italy: Mom kills 8-yr-old son after he discovers her affair with his grandfather

Initially the accused tried to mislead the cops by pretending that her son was abducted.

Santa Croce Camerina, Sicily: An Italian mother has been arrested on the charges of murdering her eight-year-old son after he discovered that she was having an affair with his grandfather.

According to a report in the Daily Mail, the accused Veronica Panarello strangled her minor son Loris Stival with electric cables

Panarello has also been accused of abandoning her son's dead body in a remote gully in Santa Croce Camerina in the Italian region of Sicily.

In her confession, Panarello claimed that her son had discovered her affair with his grandfather and feared that he would tell everyone about it.

Initially the accused tried to mislead the cops by pretending that her son was abducted. She had told police that she had dropped him off at school and when she went to pick him up, he was missing.

However, Panarello later confessed to the crime when she was caught by the police as the CCTV footage of the school did not match with her story.

While the case was under trial in the court, prosecutors branded her as egocentric, manipulative liar.'

Panarello has been found guilty of murdering her son and has been sentenced to 30 years in jail.

( Source : deccan chronicle )
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