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Monica Santi, 32, the babysitter accused of throwing a 13-month-old baby out of the window of a villa in the province of Modena, used the word “catalepsy” to justify the gesture. “It was not premeditated, but the result of an illness that suddenly hit me, I found myself in a state of catalepsy, I felt suffocated and I made this gesture which I cannot justify,” she said through her lawyer. Francesca Neri.