The case of Valentino, age 9, from Bimini Italy, has reignited the debate over a possible link between MMR vaccine and Autism after a judge ruled his disability was provoked by the vaccine.
Valentino’s parents, Antonella and Maurizio, have been awarded 140,000 pounds, to be paid by Italy’s Ministry of Health and they plan a civil action against the Italian government that may get them 800,000 pounds more.
This week, Luca Ventaloro, the Bocca family’s lawyer, who specializes in helping families with vaccine-damaged children, proclaimed that the Rimini court judgement was the ‘first public admission’ that the MMR vaccine could, in some cases, lead to a healthy child developing autism.
Antonio Barboni, a doctor of forensic medicine and appointed by the judge to independently advise the court, wrote a report saying that ‘ in the absence of any other pre-existing condition’ it is a ‘reasonable scientific probability’ that Valentino’s autism can be ‘traced back to the administration of the MMR vaccine…By the health ministry’.
Judge Lucio Ardigo, awarding compensation to the family said it was ‘conclusively established’ that Valentino had suffered from an ‘autistic disorder associated with medium cognitive delay’ and his illness, as Dr. Barboni stated, was linked to receiving the vaccine.
This landmark case in Italy could set a precedent for future civil claims against the Italian government for possible links between MMR vaccines and autism.
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