After a single judge ruled last year that he was incompetent due to the severity of the baby’s injuries, the jury trial against the parents began on Tuesday in the Linz regional court. Mother and father must now answer on suspicion of deliberately inflicting serious bodily harm. They allegedly broke the newborn’s bones several times. So far they have denied this.
Ten days after the birth on March 20, 2020, the martyrdom of the son of an Austrian woman and her husband from Bangladesh began, according to the indictment. From April 13 to May 16, the premature baby suffered a fracture of the right thigh, fractures of the growth plates on the upper arms, successive fractures of ribs and a skull fracture. The coroner called the only explanation for the serious injuries in the first trial “immediate, mass violence”. The 27-year-old Defendant and the 25-year-old Defendant firmly denied before the lay judges that they deliberately caused serious bodily harm.
nothing happened”
However, they could not answer the question of how the baby was injured. “Nothing happened,” the woman assured. She neither grabbed nor shook her son. But since, according to their own statements, only they and the husband had taken care of their son, the only conclusion was that they were also responsible for the serious injuries, according to the prosecutor.
“Always taking good care of the child”
However, the mother insisted that she and her husband “always took good care of the child”. However, they were not overwhelmed by everyday things, a report found. They are said to have received support from a mobile pediatric nurse, who, however, claims to have noticed nothing of the martyrdom.
A doctor from a hospital in Linz reported suspected assault to the police after the father arrived at the outpatient clinic on May 16, 2020 with a broken femur. The baby was diagnosed with other injuries in various stages of healing.
Source: Krone
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