Mother killed five of her children by suffocating them with a towel in revenge on her ex-husband

The trial of a low woman suspected of killing five of his children aged 1 to 8 It began on Monday in Germany, ten months after the tragic news which shocked the whole country.

Christiane K. he must answer the charges of the five murders before the court of Wuppertal (west of the country). Incurs the penalty of life imprisonment.

The 28-year-old woman has so far claimed to be innocent and her alleged motive has yet to be clarified, according to the prosecutor’s office. At the first hearing, he decided to remain silent and was not diagnosed with a mental disorder.

The drama began on September 3, 2020 in the family apartment in Solingen. In the indictment, it is stated that the mother drugged his kids at breakfast to sleep. Then he made them a bath with toys. it woke them up, Taking them one after the other into the bathroom where he strangles them to the point of suffocation.

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The children were then wrapped in towels and placed on their beds, where they were found. The woman threw herself in front of a train at the station in the nearby city of Düsseldorf the same day, but survived his suicide attempt.

Their 11-year-old eldest son, who left for school early that morning, escaped the terrible fate of his siblings.

The young woman, under arrest after the fact, He even claimed that a masked man entered his apartment and killed his children. However, no evidence has been found to support such a claim.

Prosecutor Heribert Kaune-Gebhardt pointed out that the woman had learned that her husband, from whom she had been separated for a year, I had found a new partner. The man, Christiane’s third formal partner, is the father of four of the six children.

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That day the defendant would have exchanged messages for several hours with her mother and her husband. To this he wrote: “The children are where I will be soon”the prosecutor said on Monday.

Social services knew the family, but local authorities said there was no sign the children were in danger.

The dead children were identified as Luca, 8 years old; Timo, 6 years old; Sophie, 3 years old; Leonie, 2; and Melina, from 1.

Local Mayor Tim Kurzbach lit a candle in the house where the children died before posting on Facebook: “I am shocked and deeply affected by the news that five dead children have been found in our town. I mourn these five lives ”.

With information from AFP