DNA tests showed that a newborn tossed to his death from a 2nd floor apartment in northwest Italy last month, was conceived when his mother had extramarital sex, Turin daily La Stampa reported on Thursday.
The full-term baby, named Giovanni by doctors, was found by a street sweeper in Settimo Torinese lying in the road early on 30 May, but died half an hour after being rushed to Turin's Regina Margherita hospital by ambulance.
Giovanni's mother, 34-year-old Valentina Ventura, is under arrest for murder while her husband, who claimed to have been unaware she was pregnant, is a witness in the ongoing investigation of the infant's death.
"His version of events is truthful and credible," La Stampa quoted the prosecutor spearheading the probe, Giuseppe Ferrando, as saying.
"He only found out yesterday (from the DNA tests) that he was not the baby's father."
No family member attended Giovanni's funeral, which was held in Settimo Torinese on 12 June.
Ventura, who has a young daughter, reportedly denied during her pregnancy that she was expecting another child and said she gave birth alone at the family's apartment.
"I threw my baby out of the window as soon as he was born in the bathroom. I don't remember anything else," she allegedly told police.
Ventura's husband claimed he did not hear his wife giving birth.
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