After the death of her four-year-old daughter, a 25-year-old woman has been sentenced to life imprisonment for murder by omission. The district court of Verden saw it as proven on Monday that the defendant acted out of greed. In August 2022, she deliberately showered her daughter in her apartment in Grasberg near Bremen with such hot water that the child suffered life-threatening burns.
Verden - Since she assumed that the child was not covered by health insurance, she did not seek medical treatment. She feared that she would have to bear the costs.
The German-born Kosovar had treated the child "completely inadequately" with ointment and bandages. Although the mother of three had realized that the four-year-old was getting worse and worse, she had "left her to her fate" and finally accepted her death. The girl died twelve days after the scalds. At the time, a third of the skin was black, the presiding judge said. The child had suffered "unbelievably". Dpa