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After the death of a child, difficult ways await parents. Farewell to a funeral, a memorial service. The return to life, the endurance of everyday life, the surpbading to continue at all.
If the child dies as a result of a violent crime and a suspect is charged, the court path is harder for the parents. For Jens and Susanne T., he is at the head of the Grand Chamber of the Heilbronn District Court, just after the alleged offender, the woman to whom she entrusted her son Ole for six years; who chose her as a replacement grandmother, taking care of her child as if she were her grandchild.
Jens and Susanne T. sit next to their lawyer, Jens Rabe, from where they look at Elisabeth S. The 70-year-old looks at her directly in front of the judge's seat.
She is charged with manslaughter. She allegedly strangled Ole when he spent the night of 28 April at her home in Gaisbacher Strbade in Künzelsau. His parents attended a concert. After that, the retiree disappeared until she was arrested one night later. Since then she has been in detention.
The prosecutor is convinced that Elisabeth S. had a close relationship with Ole. She took care of him since the age of two, for a while almost every day, later, less regularly. According to the prosecutor, Elisabeth S. could no longer stand the long phases of separation and had therefore decided to kill Ole. She herself is silent on the allegations.
The worst day of his life
Thus, the president of the first criminal court, Roland Kleinschroth, parents of Ole. A difficult path in the past, probably the worst day of his life.
Susanne T. describes how she and her husband want to get Ole back from Elisabeth S. on the morning of April 28, but no one opens it. Through the window, the couple always sees the toys lying in the living room, they scream through the letter slot. "I thought something had happened to Elisabeth, a heart attack or something." A neighbor opens the house with a spare key, the father searches on the ground floor, the mother goes to the first floor. The bed is wrinkled, no one answers his call.
In the bathroom, Susanne T. discovers her child, dead, in the bathtub filled with water. "Ole is lying there as he slept," said the mother in court. "I shouted loudly, my husband came, took him out, we carried him to the living room." Susanne T. lies down next to her son, in pajamas. "I did not want to believe that Ole is dead."
The 41-year-old is crying. "We did not know what was going on, we still do not know why, Elisabeth, you're the only one who can say that, please, every day, every morning, every night, I bed in bed crying because my sun is gone just talk to him in my thoughts and get my vision of the child world and hope he's an angel. "
Elisabeth S. is sitting leaning in her chair, a woman elegantly dressed in a blazer, gray-haired, up to the shoulders. She's crying too. She does not want to give details on the first day of the trial – neither on her nor on the case.
Her husband died ten years ago
Thus, the psychiatric expert with whom she spoke in detention recounts: "As a nurse, she met her husband, a patient who married her and who had a son in 1971, who now lives in Munich. How she retired early at age 58 to enjoy retirement, travel, go out. But her husband died in 2008.
Since then, Elisabeth S. has focused on her circle of friends, went to the cinema, visited museums and concerts. And she obviously took care of little Ole, whose parents had met through a neighbor 's neighbor.
The father says, "The chemistry between her and Ole is just right." It was a pleasure to watch them when they met. Elisabeth S. was for Ole the grandmother who lived in the vicinity. She took pictures of him at home, showing pictures of him to her friends. For her, he was the grandson she had been waiting for a long time.
What happened that night? Why should Ole die?
His parents are desperate. "I would ask you, Elisabeth, not to leave us in this black hole," asks the mother again in court. The defender promises that the defendant will speak. "But not today."
When the emergency call goes off and the neighbor orders an ambulance for Ole, the boy's parents leave the room. Her path leads her again to the woman, her son, affectionately called "Grandma Elisabeth".
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