A woman strangled children in the bath , wrapped the bodies in towels and laid them in bed.
In Germany, a 28-year-old woman was sentenced to life imprisonment, who killed five of her own children after seeing a photograph of her ex-husband with a new darling.
This is reported by the Daily Mail.
It is noted that in September last year, Christian K. drugged her daughters Melina, Leonie and Sophie (one, two and three years old, respectively) and sons Timo and Luka (six and eight years old, respectively), after which she strangled or drowned them in the bathtub and put the bodies wrapped in towels in bed.
Her eldest son, 11-year-old Marcel, survived only because he was at school at the time of the murders. At the same time, he said in court that his mother asked him to jump under the train together.
When he refused, the woman put him on the train to his grandmother, and she herself tried to commit suicide by jumping on the rails in Dusseldorf. Christiane escaped with serious injuries and was arrested.
The police were warned about the murders by their grandmother, who learned everything from her daughter, but the law enforcement officers arrived at the apartment too late to reanimate the children.
After Christian's arrest, she claimed for some time that a masked intruder had burst into her house. killed the children. However, she was unable to provide any evidence.
On Thursday, November 4, the Solingen city court sentenced the woman to imprisonment for at least 15 years, practically excluding the possibility of release after this period. Judge Jochen Ketter, who handled the case, called it a “tragedy.” mother.
The woman “passionately dreamed of a healthy family and took refuge in the role of a mother,” but everything collapsed when the man left for another, and Christiane was left alone with six children, four of whom were from her last marriage .
The catalyst for the murders, according to the prosecution, was a photo from Facebook on September 3, in which Christiane's ex was kissing his new partner. Seeing the photo, the woman sent the ex-chosen one a message in which she warned that he would never see his children again.
Psychiatrists examined Christian before the court and found that she could be prosecuted.
The case attracted the attention of all of Germany, where the woman was dubbed “Todesmutter” or “Mother of Death”.
