“The condition of the five-year-old after his operation is stable,” said police spokesman Heimo Kohlbacher on Wednesday. The little boy from Graz is very lucky to have survived his mother’s knife attack. The 42-year-old’s condition is also stable. She had stabbed herself in the torso with the kitchen knife. The child’s father was questioned on Tuesday evening. He stated that he noticed psychological changes in his wife.
The Slovak’s 21-year-old neighbor found the seriously injured boy Tuesday morning in the mother’s bathroom in the apartment on Sackstrasse and raised the alarm. The 42-year-old called, covered in blood, because she wanted to call her mother in her home country. Why is still unclear.
The neighbor and officials of the Schmiedgasse police station may have saved the child’s life. Police put a pressure bandage on the five-year-old and arrested the woman.
Mental illness to blame for desperate act?
The child’s mother will be interrogated on Wednesday morning at the LKH Graz. Her 26-year-old Afghan husband and father of the child, who was in Upper Austria at the time of the crime, was questioned on Tuesday evening by agents of the State Criminal Investigation Service. He stated that he had noticed psychological changes in Slovak. Whether an illness was the reason for this desperate act is still under investigation. A medical professional will probably clarify that.
The woman apparently wanted to kill the child first and then herself. Because the 42-year-old apparently stabbed himself in the upper body and cut her forearm open with the same eight-inch-long kitchen knife she used to try to kill her son.
Massive cuts inflicted on son
However, her injuries are much less severe than her child’s. Police said the cuts to the five-year-old’s forearms were massive, requiring all of the five-year-old’s blood vessels, tendons and nerves to be sewn back together. He was in the operating room until the evening hours.
Source: Krone
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