The absurd story of Pasquale and Annamaria, orphans of femicide. “Our father wants to cremate mom and keep her when she gets out of prison”

Pasquale Guadagno is 27 years old and has been fighting for 14 years, with his sister Annamaria, 31 years old, so that they, orphans of femicide, have their rights. They want the memory of their mother, Carmela Cerillo, killed in 2010 by her husband Salvatore in Feletto Umberto (Udine) to be protected. The father of the two boys, Salvatore Guadagno, was sentenced, “with an abbreviated rite and the mitigating circumstance of jealousy”, to 18 years in prison, which later became, for good behavior, 13 years. Today, he explains Corriere della Serahe will be released from prison and will be able to pronounce on the body of the woman he killed.

“He wants to cremate our mother”

“A year and a half ago, my sister and I decided to follow the wishes of our mother – Pasquale tells the newspaper – who did not want to stay here in Udine, but who would have liked to be buried one day with her family in Naples » . “We started to inquire and found out that we had no rights because, according to the law, he is still a widower today and, therefore, he can decide about his body. Without your written permission, we cannot do anything. So we turned to the municipality of Tavagnacco (Udine), which gave us a paper to have our father sign. Forced by this system, we had to return to prison, after years without seeing him (the last time I saw him, he threatened to kill me), but he never signed,” explains the young man. man. Killer father wants to cremate his wife.”To keep her with himat his home, upon his release from prison”, explains the young man.

The paradoxes of the two brothers, orphans of femicide: without help or even inheritance

Pasquale says that after the murder, he was placed in the care of his father's family. Relatives who forced him to visit his father in prison. A situation against which Pasquale rebelled at the age of 17 by going to live with his sister. Mother Carmela, before being killed by her husband, was herself an orphan of femicide. Annamaria De Concilio, maternal grandmother of Pasquale and Annamaria, was murdered by her husband Raffaele Cerillo, in Naples, on May 10, 1973. When Carmela was only seven months old. Both brothers received no support after Carmela's death. And they didn't even receive anything from the inheritance, nor from what was in the house, nor from what was in the bank account. Maria Domenica Castellone, Vice President of the Senate, invited Pasquale Guadagno to speak in the Senate about his story on April 11 and to present his book Wherever you are (published by Europa Edizioni in 2022). But the boy explains that by then, it might already be too late. His father may have won, once again, over their mother's body.

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