Missing sisters, no prison for mother, partner and grandfather

No prison for her mother, stepfather and grandfather two of your sisters aged 16 and 12 disappeared from a family home in Civitella Alfedena, in Abruzzo, and find in Formia after almost two weeks of research. The judge for preliminary investigations of the Court of Sulmona has the arrest was validated of Valentina D’Acunto, with her partner Vincenzo Esposito and the woman’s father, Marco D’Acunto, who ended up in prison on charges aggravated kidnapping in competition after the discovery of the girls. And what time they were released: the investigating judge ruled against them the obligation to reside in the province of Latina and that of report to the police twice a day for the company. – Video

The case of the missing sisters, the judge’s decision

The validation hearingwhich lasted about five hours, it took place in front of the Giulia Sani chalk. When finished, the judge has arrest confirmed ordered by the Sulmona Prosecutor’s Office but accepted the request apply the residence obligation in the province of Latina. After the formal checks in their respective prisons of origin, the three were able to return to their homes, however they remain bound to the precautionary measure and to the obligation to stop twice a day. According to the Prosecutor’s Office, they remain «serious indications of guilt» against them and the disputed accusation continues to be that of kidnapping aggravated in competition.

An image published on Stefano Di Giacinto’s Facebook profile of his two daughters, Sarah and Alisya (Ansa)

The investigation into the missing sisters continues

In the meantime, the Sulmona prosecutor Luciano D’Angelo has in fact explained that the investigative checks are not concluded. «They remain to be verified further circumstances to ascertain the possibility involvement of other people», he underlined. To be clarified, for example, is grandmother’s positionit involves confirming that she was aware of the plan to make the girls escape. And it stays the “aunt” is also under investigationthe elderly woman in whose house in Formia the two girls were found: for her the hypothesis is of complicity in the kidnapping. The prosecutor also specified that “Valentina D’Acunto has provided some explanations”, but for the magistrate “these are her personal beliefs”. Because, claims D’Angelo, «his goal was simply to return to have their daughters with them».

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The defense: «It was not a kidnapping»

During the interrogation Valentina D’Acunto, Vincenzo Esposito and Marco D’Acunto answered all the judge’s questionssupporting a common defensive line. Everyone argued that it wasn’t a kidnapping It’s time to get back to normal. According to the defense, therefore, the matter should be classified as abduction of minors and not as kidnapping in person. An argument which, however, at least for now, the investigating judge has not accepted.

The moment of discovery by the Carabinieri of Sarah and Alisya, the two sisters aged 16 and 12 who disappeared from a family home in Civitella Alfedena, and today in good health in a house owned by an aunt., Formia, 21 June 2026 ANSA

“They did something stupid”

According to the lawyer Enrico Mastantuono, who defends Valentina D’Acunto, mother, partner and grandfather of the missing sisters «they committed a huge mistake», but now «they have repented». And everyone «has become aware that this thing shouldn’t have been done because” there were rules to respect. Secondly, the lawyer, «the project was born because we, the defenders, were disheartened by the notification of the sentence at the end of May». And he added that the three were “strongly driven, as the prosecutor said, by a sick love. I am people spun by affection».