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A 37-year-old was sentenced to 13 years in prison for two murders of her two children before the Ulm Regional Court in Baden-Württemberg.
The court saw it as proven that she had suffocated her three- and six-year-old children in their sleep in April this year, a spokesman for the court said.
According to the information, the fact that the woman had a severe suicidal syndrome at the time of the offense and admitted the offenses during the trial had a mitigating effect.
Suffocated with helium
Prosecutors had asked for a 15-year prison sentence for insidious murder in two cases.
The defense attorney had pleaded for a prison sentence of no more than ten years.
He did not consider the murder criterion of treachery to be fulfilled and therefore spoke out in favor of a condemnation of the act as manslaughter.
The defendant smothered her two three and six year old children with helium in their sleep at night at the end of April this year.
The father found the two children dead that morning in the family's apartment in Oberstadion in the Alb-Donau district.
File number: 3 Ks 31 Js 8878/21
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