Bremgarten district court Parents kill disabled child (3) - 8 years in prison
Eight years imprisonment for a 32-year-old woman who killed their severely disabled daughter with her partner in 2020: The Bremgarten District Court found her guilty of intentional homicide and attempted homicide on Friday.
13.09.2024, 10:05
13.09.2024, 10:24
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- Eight years imprisonment for a 32-year-old woman who killed their severely disabled daughter with her partner in 2020.
- On Friday, the Bremgarten District Court found her guilty of intentional homicide and attempting to do so.
On 6 May 2020, the now 32-year-old woman and 34-year-old man drugged their three-year-old daughter with ecstasy and then suffocated her. Because he had procured the ecstasy, the man was also sentenced to a conditional fine for violating the Narcotics Act.
He was also found guilty of attempted murder. In October 2019, the parents had already tried to kill the child once with an overdose of sleeping pills in the bottle. However, it woke up again. The court ordered the two Germans to be deported for ten years each.
The child had suffered from severe cerebral impairment since birth. It would have needed intensive round-the-clock care for the rest of its life.
The parents claimed that they had relieved their daughter of her increasingly severe pain, cramps, paralysis and other ailments out of love. Their defense lawyers had pleaded for manslaughter and partial prison sentences of three years each. The defendants had acted under great emotional stress.
Acquittal for grandmother
The public prosecutor had demanded custodial sentences of 18 years each for murder. There would certainly have been opportunities for progress for the child. However, it had been a nuisance to the accused and they had wanted to get rid of it. In doing so, they had acted in a blatantly selfish and unscrupulous manner.
The grandmother of the child who was killed was acquitted of the charge of aiding and abetting. The prosecution had accused her of not having prevented her daughter and her boyfriend from killing her.
She herself had claimed that she had not known what to do. She had strongly advised against the act and supported the young family as much as possible.
