The accused mother does not suffer from any mental disorder relevant to her alleged act, confirmed an expert. This is relevant in the event of a conviction.
Wuppertal – In the trial of the Solingen child murders, according to the court-appointed psychiatrist, the defendant is fully guilty.
He could not find any evidence of a relevant mental disorder in the 28-year-old, said expert Prof. Pedro Faustmann on Friday in the process at the Wuppertal district court. He thus stuck to his preliminary assessment.
Even on the day of the incident, there was no evidence of such a disorder. The accused had always been the master of her actions. “Everything was in order,” said Faustmann.
He could not rule out that she was a victim of sexual assault in her family earlier. Even if this were the case, however, this did not result in a mental illness.
The defense lawyers suspected that the defendant could have been sexually abused by her father as a child. This could have caused a mental disorder in her and save the accused from life imprisonment. The defendant’s father has been convicted of possession of harsh child pornography.
The Solingen woman is said to have drugged and killed five of her six children a year ago. Shortly before, her husband had told her that he had a new partner.
The children’s bodies were discovered on September 3 last year in the family’s apartment in Solingen: Melina (1), Leonie (2), Sophie (3), Timo (6) and Luca (8). Her mother threw herself in front of a train at Düsseldorf Central Station, but survived. Her eldest son was unharmed. His mother had sent him to see his grandmother in the Lower Rhine region. The defendant has denied the act several times. A stranger broke into her apartment and killed her children. dpa
