A good year after the killing of five children in Solingen, her mother faces the maximum sentence for fivefold murder. What could have been the motive for the act?
Wuppertal – A good year after the killing of five children in Solingen, the public prosecutor has demanded the maximum sentence for her mother who is suspected of murder.
On Tuesday he applied for life imprisonment at the Wuppertal district court and the determination of the particular severity of her guilt, which almost excludes a release from prison after 15 years.
The 28-year-old had maliciously killed the five children. They were completely innocent when they were drugged by their own mother and then drowned or suffocated. The children were covered up by police on September 3 last year and found dead in their beds.
The defendants’ version of a stranger breaking into their home, handcuffing them and killing their children is bogus for a number of reasons. There were no traces of it either.
Longing for a whole family
Rather, she was disappointed that her husband had found a new wife in the neighborhood. “She had a certain longing for an intact family, so she fled to the role of mother,” said the public prosecutor. “She lived in a kind of facade world that she had built herself. After the facade was removed, the children had no function. “
Co-plaintiff lawyer Jochen Ohliger criticized the mother’s defense lawyers, who had brought into play the thesis that the children’s father could have hired a contract killer on his own children. This is the “cowardly attempt by the defense to drag my client into it. He has lost four children, the limit of what is allowed is exceeded, “said the lawyer. “He was certainly not the husband of the year.” It is normal for relationships to diverge.
Defense attorney Thomas Seifert said it was obvious that the defendant became a victim of her father as a toddler. He was convicted of possession of child pornography. As a teenager, the 28-year-old was also raped. Therefore, it is understandable that his client had become a high-grade narcissist, the extent of which is comparable to Donald Trump. She wanted to create the family she didn’t have herself.
Lost ground underfoot
Until the date of the offense, she had looked after the children in an unobjectionable manner and kept the household with six children to perfection. The photo of her husband with the new partner then pulled the floor from under her feet.
If she committed the act, there is a risk of recurrence, said the lawyer. He nevertheless applied for an acquittal because there were doubts about her perpetrator. If the court does not follow this, a sentence of eight years for manslaughter with placement in a psychiatric hospital is appropriate.
The psychiatric and psychological experts appointed by the court had attested that the defendant was fully responsible and found no evidence of a serious mental disorder.
The 28-year-old German, who followed the closing lectures with a fixed look and without any particular emotion, waived her right to the last word. The court wants to announce the verdict on Thursday.
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. dpa
