(ANSA) - mantua, May 17: A mother who killed her two children in December 2017 was acquitted Friday after a court ruled she was not in her right mind.
The court said 41-year-old Antonella Barbieri was unable to understand what she was doing when she killed five-year-old Lorenzo Zeus at Suzzara near Mantua and two-year-old Kim at Luzzara near Reggio Emilia on December 7 that year.
Barbieri had the children with her husband, Andrea Benatti. But the court ruled that Barbieri will have to spend the next 10 years in a custodial psychiatric facility, a REMS, formerly psychiatric hospital prisons.
The woman is currently in a REMS at Castiglione delle Stiviere near mantua.
