Sad jury trial in St. Pölten, just three weeks before Christmas. On Monday, the mother who drowned her two daughters (seven years and seven months old) in the swimming pool in Absdorf, Lower Austria, in the summer and then drove her car into a tree with suicidal intent, took her seat in the grand jury courtroom.
“You know why you are here today,” the judge begins after the man’s handcuffs have been removed by prison guards. “Of course,” the 37-year-old replies. “Because I killed my children,” she says in no uncertain terms. The little woman seems composed at the beginning of the negotiation.
“See the world as a refuge from evil!”
In her plea, lawyer Astrid Wagner speaks about the woman’s serious mental illness: “It was impossible for her in her madness to recognize that her actions were wrong. She saw the world as a refuge from evil,” Wagner explains. “Do you remember July 24?” the judge asks. “Quite vague,” says the woman. Details of the horrific incident, which was documented by a video camera mounted at the pool, are being suppressed by all parties to the lawsuit.
‘How do you imagine your future?’ ‘If I knew. I think I will go through the measure and then build a new life for myself.” The hearing is not about a prison sentence, but about the placement of the woman, who has completed training as a nurse and speech therapist, in a forensic clinic. -therapeutic center. Now the experts have their say.
Source: Krone
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