Bibbiano, Sonia Cecchinato: “My son has been away for eight years, managers have to pay”

“They took our son from us on July 18, 2013, he was two and a half years old. For eight years my husband and I were able to see him in protected mode for an hour every two months. Supervised, recorded meetings, at the end of which we were held to say goodbye by telling him that mum and dad had to say goodbye to go to school, to learn to be good parents. Bibbiano has opened a Pandora’s box, but the illicit custody and bullying of unscrupulous social workers have origins far back in time “. Speaking to the Adnkronos is Sonia Cecchinato, one of the mothers of those “angels” torn by the “demons”, or presumed to be, of Bibbiano. The investigation into alleged illicit custody, which takes its name from Dan Brown’s book “Angels and demons”, led to the registration of 24 people in the register of suspects. Next Thursday, in the court of Reggio Emilia, judge Dario De Luca will have to decide on the requests for an abbreviated procedure for two of the suspects, the psychotherapist Claudio Foti and the social worker Beatrice Benati, and rule on the requests for indictment for the other 22 . “I want justice, I demand justice – says the mother of the child who is now almost eleven – My husband and I have been married for 12 years, we have a house, a job, they took away the best years of our son, those in which he learned to to know the world, to read, to write, on the first day of school, lost and grown teeth. Nobody will give us back this, but at least the sentences will be able to reward us for part of the suffering “. “It took eight years for a decree to arrive with which the Court, last week, immediately and urgently ordered to increase the meetings, free them and give the authorization to return home during the weekends of our son – announces the woman – I don’t even know if he received communion or not, when I asked him he replied ‘but why, should I have done it?’ and they accused me of having caused him a discomfort. Our luck is that we have always managed to maintain a good relationship with him, he calls us mum and dad, he is happy when he sees us, we give him gifts. I had five children and five children they took me away, for having a problematic family and having suffered violence from my stepfather: a judge told me clearly that I could not be a mother with the traumas I suffered and that I could pass on to them. I have a decent and normal life “. “I have been struggling with social services for 25 years, making complaints, moving through lawyers – he says – It’s not just Bibbiano, absolutely: indeed, I am grateful that this ‘bomb’ exploded in 2019 which uncovered a Pandora’s box. Today we talk about it, you can hope for justice. I just want to take back my last child. I have a wonderful relationship with the three eldest, now of age, and they also made me a grandmother, with the other child I never recovered the relationship because they told him about having been abandoned. From Parma to Bibbiano I experienced a wrong and rotten system on my skin. I am not afraid, I continue my battle for the truth, to have my baby back home, I don’t know where he is, with whom It is. I never knew. It is a tragedy, only the desire to bring him home allows me not to collapse, I only had one birthday in eight years, and only because the day of the meeting coincided with the anniversary. only to have my son back “. (by Silvia Mancinell the)