Unthinkable Wings

I'll tell you this: there is plenty of crime in Italy, including plenty of inter-family violence, but I have never come across, or even conceived of, a couple of people who would decide to starve their own six-year-old child to death, and do so coldly and without remorse. I call it inconceivable. And the seven dead babies have a refinement of brutality which, in this age of abortion, shows a special and incomprehensible pleasure in personal killing that takes the breath away. One, perhaps. But seven?