The mother of a missing teenage girl was told on live TV that her daughter had been murdered - and that her brother-in-law had confessed to the killing.
Concetta Serrano, whose daughter Sarah Scazzi, 15, disappeared in August, was being filmed for Italian TV to appeal for help in finding her when she was given the heartbreaking news.
The programme was being made in the home of Miss Serrano's brother-in-law, Michele Misseri, who police said had confessed to killing Sarah.
She had disappeared on August 26 while she walked the short distance to her uncle's house in the southern Italian town of Avetrana, where she was supposed to meet a cousin to go to the beach in Puglia.
Prosecutor Franco Sebastio told a news conference that police had pulled out the waterlogged body of a blond girl resembling Sarah from a water tank after Misseri had led them to a spot covered by stones and leaves.
Mr Sebastio and police officials said Misseri had confessed that he had killed Sarah shortly after she disappeared. Italian media have reported that Misseri confessed to strangling the girl after she refused his sexual advances.
Italian news agencies had broken the story of the confession at the same time as Chi l'ha visto, a programme on the state-run RAI network that investigates disappearances, was being broadcast live.


After the TV reporter informed Miss Serrano of her daughter's death, the programme-makers continued to film her, despite her clearly being in shock.
It was only after several minutes that they asked her if she would like filming to end, to which she replied: 'It is better.'
The decision to inform Miss Serrano about her daughter's death while she was on air has been strongly criticised by many viewers.


One wrote on a message board: 'If you're a human being with the least heart, you can't do something like this.'
But Paolo Ruffini, the channel controller, defended the manner in which the news was broken.
'The programme tried to manage a very tragic affair in the most delicate possible way and I have to say the presenter achieved it,' he said.


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I read about this the other day, but I didn't realise she was told on TV

italian media are obsessed with this story.. i'm not surprised this happened..

poor girl.. her uncle killed her and then he raped her (she was already dead)

Where's the video?

This is heartbreaking Some people just doesn't deserve the precious lives they are given.

Well, that's a blank reaction.

Karma will come back and hit him where it hurts - prison rape

She lived near here
I can't believe it happened.
He's such an awful person and deserves to be killed.
R.I.P. Sarah

Damn thats awful :X

Oh, yeah this was everywhere.
I always read www.gazzetta.it and they were talking about this even there.

Very sad news, so disturbing.
R.I.P.

OMG.. her uncle will never have the suffering he deserves

It happened once here with the wife of a politician who was murdered.. Can't find the video though.

On live TV?! WTF? that's cruel

necrophilia

Jesus come the **** down and save us with the quickness

I think it's wrong for the media to film her reaction live on TV.

And this is so cruel. I feel very sorry to the mother for the loss. I hope she can recover quickly.
As to the poor girl, RIP. I hope she go all the way to the safe place.
The uncle, ugh. He should be punished to the worst extent.

delicate, my a$$