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Defendant next to her lawyer in the Lüneburg district court
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A 22-year-old woman from the vicinity of Lüneburg in Lower Saxony has been sentenced to three years and six months in prison for the killing of her newborn son.
With this judgment, the process before the Lüneburg district court ended on the second day of the hearing.
The court held out the prospect of an open execution.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to," the mother had said during the trial.
The prosecutor had pleaded for manslaughter and requested a six-year prison sentence.
The defense attorney wanted an acquittal or a suspended sentence.
The decision is not yet final.
The jury overturned the arrest warrant until the judgment became final.
Death from suffocation or strangulation
According to the investigation, the baby was born viable between September 17 and 18, 2019.
The defendant had admitted through her lawyer that she was the baby's mother.
At the same time, she explained that she had not noticed the pregnancy and gave birth to the boy in the bathroom in the parents' house.
According to the indictment, she then strangled or suffocated the child and then presumably kept the dead infant refrigerated in an unknown location.
In August 2020, she put it on her family's property.
At the time of the arrest in the same month, the now convicted 22-year-old was pregnant again.
She gave birth to her son in the women's prison in Vechta.
The fourth large criminal chamber had opened the main proceedings with the proviso that murder for low motives was also possible.
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