The district court Rorschach has found a 35-year-old woman and a 55-years man for negligent homicide of their daughter’s guilty. They were sentenced to a term of imprisonment of six (mother) and five (father) years.
In August, 2015, the police discovered in the basement of a building in Staad SG a dead girl. In a four-day hearing set down it went at the end of November before the County court of Rorschach, the question is whether the parents can be made for the death of the child responsible.
The district court said the parents in a published on Thursday in judgment, negligent homicide, guilty. The mother was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of six years. The father to five years in prison. The judgment is not yet final.
The prosecution had accused the 35-year-old mother and the 55-year-old father, would you search the nearly two-year-old child because of her drug so much neglected that it died. It had been then treated “like garbage”. The mother should others, because of intentional homicide, the violation of care and education obligations, as well as for violations of the narcotics law, a sentence of imprisonment of 10.5 years, the father because of the same facts, a sentence of imprisonment of eight years.
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clarified The defence demanded for both defendants acquittals. The mother’s lawyer stated that there was in this case, no confessions. Therefore, it was a circumstantial process. For a conviction of an unbroken chain of evidence is missing. The child death had been the cause of more detectable. Suspect a breathing, let a standstill or sudden infant death syndrome.
Due to an inexplicable reaction, and out of panic the woman had not immediately called the ambulance, but the dead child in a suitcase Packed and in the basement. There is no provable connection, “like a do or do not Do” your client could have led to the death of the child, said the lawyer.
The father had been brought up in a chaotic environment, said the lawyer. He had been due to mental problems, under the influence of drugs. In the care of the daughter he had to rely on the mother. (fal/sda)
Created: 20.12.2018, 11:38 PM
