Factory owners plea bargain in landmark work death
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A married couple who own the factory where a landmark workplace accident death occurred in May 2021
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Two-year and one-and-a-half-year suspended sentences were agreed upon.
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Luana D'Orazio, a 22-year-old worker with a five-year-old son, was mangled to death by a weaving machine in Prato on May 3, 2021,
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bringing attention to a wave of workplace deaths and spurring government action that has so far been mostly ineffective.
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On Thursday, factory owner Luana Coppini agreed to a two-year suspended sentence,
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while her husband, Daniele Faggi, agreed to a one-and-a-half-year suspended sentence with a judge.
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D'Orazio's mother, Emma Marrazzo, expressed disappointment with the verdicts, saying, "I was hoping for a more just penalty, a more exemplary verdict."
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'Very disappointed by verdict' says Luana D'Orazio's mother