Pflegeoma in court: death of a seven-year-old child – Panorama

• After the death of a seven-year-old boy in Künzelsau, his nursing grandmother is judged on Tuesday.
• The victim, aged 70, allegedly strangled the child who had been entrusted to her on April 27 and put her in a bathtub.
• The woman does not want to comment on the allegations on the first day of the trial. The boy's mother killed him on an emotional call.

As is often the case in the hot bed, she's lying next to her son after her husband took out the dead child from the bath and laid him on the floor in the living room, explained the mother. "He was so cold, terribly cold." The 41 year old woman has tears and sobs at Heilbronn High Court after the worst day of her life. She wanted to give the child warmth, her body was already stiff. "It was the only thing I could do." It was already too late. Pflegeoma, a 70-year-old girl from Künzelsau, said the seven-year-old girl was killed in late April and put in her bath. She is on trial for manslaughter. And until now, does not say anything.

"She was like a grandmother for us," says the mother. Even his only child had always spoken of "Grandma Elizabeth". Over the years, the defendant has moved closer to the family. Between child and elderly citizen, it was a "love at first sight", judge president Roland Kleinschroth. At the age of kindergarten, the boy often went to Pflegeoma several times a week. Especially when he was sick, but both parents had to work. The boy was happy to spend the night with "Grandma Elisabeth". So, it was also scheduled for April 27, 2018.

The parents wanted to go to a concert. A rare evening for two. "Our whole life was centered on him, he was our center, our everything." "Why?", Crying mother sobbing towards the accused towards the end of her statement. "Elisabeth, you can tell us." After a break, she adds pleading. "Do not leave us in the black hole." Judge Kleinschroth promised parents to do everything during the process so that they could always get an answer. According to the prosecutor's version, the accused could not bear the boy's last separation times. Therefore, she decided to kill the child, said prosecutor Harald Lustig in the indictment.

The father wants to pick up the boy on April 28th. When no one opens it, he leaves and returns later with his wife to the accused. Part of the shutters are still down, no one answers. A neighbor has a key, the third searches the house. For a long time, the authorities stated that the father had discovered the dead boy. But Tuesday, his mother said: "There was water in the bathtub, very high, it was dark, then I saw Ole in the bathtub, as if he was asleep. " She has always felt comfortable with the Pflegeoma, said the mother several times during this first day of the trial. "And Ole too."

The defendant was born in 1948 in the small town of Künzelsau, which now has 15,000 inhabitants. She graduated from high school and apprenticeship in home economics in Cologne. She then followed a nurse training. Her husband, a civil servant, died a few years ago. Until her arrest on the evening of April 28, she lived alone in her own home.

Her boss recommended her as a nurse, says the dead boy's mother. After the act, the accused is hidden on the bank of the river Kocher until the next night, they say. She was arrested on her return home. The district court initially designated nine trial dates. More than 30 witnesses are invited. The verdict could fall on January 30th.