{"id":207236,"date":"2026-04-23T14:19:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/207236\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:19:20","slug":"parents-of-boy-13-who-allegedly-killed-tourist-chiara-jaconis-with-statue-in-italy-facing-manslaughter-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/207236\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents of boy, 13, who allegedly killed tourist Chiara Jaconis with statue in Italy facing manslaughter charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The parents of a 13-year-old boy who allegedly killed a Prada manager when he <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/09\/19\/world-news\/prada-manager-killed-by-falling-statue-while-walking-in-naples\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tossed a statuette off a building<\/a> in Italy are facing manslaughter charges, according to a report.<\/p>\n<p>Italian prosecutors say the parents \u201cshould have supervised the boy,\u201d which they claim would\u2019ve avoided tourist Chiara Jaconis\u2019 death in September 2024, Italian outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.today.it\/cronaca\/chiara-jaconis-processo-genitori-13enne-napoli.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Today reported<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Jaconis, 30, was struck by a 4.4-pound onyx statuette when she and her boyfriend Livio Rousseau were wheeling their luggage down the Spanish Quarters in Naples on Sept. 15.<\/p>\n<p>She suffered severe brain injuries before she died in a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Chiara Jaconis died in September 2024 after a statue pushed off a building hit her head.  Newsflash<\/p>\n<p>The boy, whom prosecutors described as \u201cproblematic,\u201d was cleared by an Italian juvenile court \u2014 with attention now turning to his parents. In Italy, children under 14 cannot be held criminally liable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His parents strongly deny any wrongdoing, arguing that the statuette wasn\u2019t their property and their lawyer says\u00a0they have \u201cno case to answer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A hearing will be held June 26 to determine whether the parents should face trial.<\/p>\n<p>Jaconis, who was originally from Padua but worked in Paris, France, was in Naples celebrating her 30th birthday, and chilling surveillance footage captured the moments leading up to the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>She was walking slightly ahead of Rousseau down the street.<\/p>\n<p>He yelled out \u201cChiara\u201d and cried \u201cOh my God\u201d before he screamed for help.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jaconis\u2019 boyfriend rushed to help his stricken partner. Newsflash<\/p>\n<p>A fragment of the statuette that hit Jaconis. Newsflash<\/p>\n<p>Jaconis had worked for Prada since October 2022 and she managed 15 stores across the France, Monaco and Belgium region, according to her LinkedIn.<\/p>\n<p>She previously worked for the fashion brands L\u2019Oreal, Givenchy, and Christian Louboutin in Paris. <\/p>\n<p>Before turning to fashion, she worked at Disneyland Paris as a sales assistant between July and September 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The circumstances behind her death sparked widespread horror across Italy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a great sorrow, a tragedy that deeply affects all of us,\u201d said Gaetano Manfredi, the Naples mayor.<\/p>\n<p>Sergio Giordani, the mayor of Padua, branded Jaconis\u2019 death \u201cabsurd and tragic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Juvenile prosecutors closed their investigation eight months after Jaconis\u2019 death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The parents of a 13-year-old boy who allegedly killed a Prada manager when he tossed a statuette off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[303,4858,9,11,10,1076],"class_list":{"0":"post-207236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-italy","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}