A boy was only allowed to live in Styria for a few minutes after his birth – then his mother killed him in an apartment in Kapfenberg. The case is deeply moving and evokes memories of other horrific acts: when mothers kill.
Again and again, children become victims of their mothers. Sometimes because of too high demands – as in the case of the baby – sometimes because of the belief that the child must be protected against ‘evil’, or because of the fear of losing the children, for example in the context of a divorce. Particularly tragic are the six cases that crime expert Martina Prewein ‘Krone’ describes in our digital special.
Like that of a 42-year-old woman from Lower Austria who not only killed her 21-year-old daughter, but also set her on fire and dismembered her. Or that of a 37-year-old who pushed her children down from the fourth floor in Vienna. Or that of an Upper Austrian whose 17-year-old daughter starved to death. Prewein not only describes the background of the incredible drama, but also knows what the perpetrators are doing now – whether they are still in prison, free or dead themselves.
Source: Krone
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