the mother of Loatian origin who, after being abandoned by her husband in extreme poverty, strangled, one after the other, her six children in the American town of Saint Paul (Minnesota).
Loretta Zen’s crime, who drowned her-eight-month-old daughter with a short cycle of washing in a washing machine, stroke public opinion for its apparent exceptionality. And yet in 1996 and in 2001 in Italy there had already been two newborn babies killed in a washing machine and in Detroit in 1987 and in China in1991 a girl and a boy had been killed with the same system. In Detroit a washing machine had been the punishment inflicted by a twenty-six-year-old mother on her daughter of three years of age for getting herself wet. In China the mother, actually, was innocent since her responsability had been to have said to the baby-sitter of sixteen years of age: ” After the laundry wash the child,too”. The girl had literally considered these words and together with the dirty clothes she had slipped also the child into the washing machine.
[1] More than emulation we prefer telling about culture of the murderous mother meaning, with this concept, some innate tendencies which exist in the population and at the slightest stimulus they turn into the precise action of killing their own children. The last newborn baby killed by her mother would be put in a washing machine after being choked, therefore the similitude with the case of Loretta Zen whose daughter, on the contrary, had made a real cycle of washing, is very superficial.
[2] A Roman Daily
[3] By swallowing some ammonia,
[4] Eugenio Podio 44 years old, many admissions to the Mental Health Centre of the General Hospital of Milan, a difficult relationship with the child’s mother, soon after the homicide he put about eighty holy pictures of hinduist religion all around the corpse and waited for the following morning to inform his cousin, a doctor, about the event.
[5] A Title of the “Corriere della Sera” of 28th June 2002.
[6] The woman, together with her husband, announced legal consequences and went on accusing of the event a gang of Slavs who would have broken into her house to burgle it.
Translated from “Il Virus Intelligente” by Enrica Narducci
To be continued in:
5) Murderous Mothers Fifth Part
6) Murderous mothers Sixth Part
See also:
1) Murderous Mothers First Part
2) Murderous Mothers Second Part
3) Murderous Mothers Third Part
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