The slaughter of children The last two innocents killed at the hands of their father were 15 years old and 13 years old. It happened in the province of Padua and they tried to escape. He, the murderer, Alessandro Pontin, 49, killed himself after the massacre. He stabbed them in the throat and gave them no chance. He killed with brutal cruelty, like so many other fathers before him. The boys' mother, from whom the man was separated, had repeatedly asked for help, reporting that the father of her children [...]