North Rhine-Westphalia: mother from Herne for murder in court

A mother is said to have suffocated two of her sons.

North Rhine-Westphalia: mother from Herne for murder in court

A mother is said to have suffocated two of her sons. More than ten years later, the woman from Herner was arrested in April 2022. Now she is on trial for murder.

Bochum (dpa / lnw) - A mother from Herne is said to have suffocated her two sons in 2011 and 2012. A third child barely survived in 2018. The 33-year-old German has been on trial for murder in Bochum since Monday.

She watched the indictment read before the jury without moving. The allegations against the German could hardly be harsher: the woman is said to have suffocated her two sons about a decade ago. Tayler was only two and a half months old, Justin only 19 months.

The third son Jason, born in 2015, barely survived an alleged assassination attempt by his mother two and a half years later. The accused is also said to have closed his airways with a blanket. In the end, however, she gave up her plan and called the emergency doctor, according to the indictment.

When a pediatrician later examined Jason at the clinic and learned of the two deceased brothers, she became suspicious. A check with the doctors, who had tried in vain to resuscitate Tayler and Justin, revealed that the mother had seemed strangely unemotional in both cases. After the pediatrician's tip, the public prosecutor's office finally commissioned a forensic medical report. In April 2022, the woman from Herner was arrested.

The public prosecutor is convinced that the mother became the murderer because she was unable to take care of the children. According to the indictment, she wanted to continue to lead a life without family obligations. True, the woman lived with her husband all the time. However, he offered her little support. While the man did not join the proceedings as a joint plaintiff, the interests of the surviving son are represented by a lawyer. The boy is said to be living with a foster family.

The Bochum jury initially scheduled 18 days of trial until December 21 for the trial.