GERMAN MOTHER SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON FOR MURDER OF FIVE OF HER CHILDREN

Sun 07 November 2021:

In Germany, a 28-year-old mother was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of five of her six children at their home last year.

The woman was found guilty of the homicides by a regional court in Wuppertal, and the gravity of her crimes was proved.

Judge Jochen Kötter called the case, which stunned Germany, a “tragedy.”

In September of last year, the remains of Melina, Leonie, Sophie, Timo, and Luca, all aged one to eight years old, were discovered covered and in their beds in an apartment in the western city of Solingen.

Prosecutors claimed their mother, named only as Christiane K., sedated the children before drowning or suffocating them.

Investigators believed that she was angered after receiving a photo from her former partner with his new lover. The mother had written back to the ex-partner that he would never see his children again, German news agency DPA reported.

A sixth child, her eldest, had been sent to stay with his grandmother before the murders.

Christiane K. then attempted suicide by jumping in front of a train at the Duesseldorf railway station, inflicting serious but non-life threatening injuries.

During the trial, she alleged that an unknown individual broke into her flat, tied her up, and murdered her children.

The conviction means that the 28-year-old will be unable to be freed from jail after 15 years, which is the average length of time served by persons sentenced to life in prison in Germany.

Photo: Tributes at the apartment building in Solingen where five children were found dead.

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