In the case of a murdered three-year-old in Detmold, the prosecutor's office has applied for a warrant for manslaughter against the boy's half-sister. The 15-year-old will be presented to the magistrate on Friday, the investigators said. It is considered urgently suspect
The 15-year-old had been arrested after hours long escape in the morning in neighboring Lemgo. She had said in the presence of a defender to the charge, it was said. About the content of the statement made police and prosecutors for investigative tactical reasons, no information. To investigators and possible motives for the act, the investigators have not yet commented.
Relatives found the three-year-old boy's body in the apartment around 9:00 pm Wednesday and alerted the police. The autopsy has now revealed that the boy died of "multiple puncture wounds". His half-sister missed every track on Wednesday night. The authorities then initiated a search, patrol officers, service dogs and a helicopter were in action.
After the authorities had published a photo of the young woman and asked for information from the population, a witness in neighboring Lemgo was the decisive tip. When an official arrested the 15-year-old, she had not resisted. She was in "calm state," said the spokesman for the Detmold prosecutor, Christopher Imig. Where the suspect spent the night and how she came to Lemgo is still unclear. The family is cared for.
Comparable cases in which children or adolescents have killed their siblings are extremely rare in Germany. More than ten years ago, in April 2009, a 16-year-old man killed his six-year-old brother near Darmstadt. As a motive he indicated hatred for the younger.
In August 2005, a six-year-old woman killed her only ten-day-old sister in Ilmkreis in Thuringia. In the district of Demmin (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), a 14-year-old shot his mother and seven-year-old half-sister in the family home in September 2001 - he was sentenced to eight years in prison.
On the other hand, investigations against children and adolescents about homicides are ongoing. For the year 2018, the police crime statistics alone in North Rhine-Westphalia 35 suspects between 14 and 17 years, against which was determined for murder or manslaughter. Three suspects were even under 14 years old.
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