The case goes back to the year 2000. A woman is said to have killed her viable baby in Potsdam. The defendant is silent on the allegations.
Potsdam – In the trial for the killing of a baby, the 61-year-old defendant does not want to comment on the accusations made by the public prosecutor. That was what her defense lawyer said at the start of the trial before the Potsdam Regional Court on Tuesday.
The woman is accused of having given birth to a viable child in a residential building in Potsdam on an undetermined day between April and August 2000 and then killing it "by stabbing it in the chest," the indictment said.
According to the court, the crime came to light in 2017 when the husband of the 61-year-old German told a garden neighbor about the incident. This filed a complaint.
The court has set seven days for the trial. The wife's husband was to be heard as a witness on Tuesday. dpa
