Baby Killed in Vienna-Favoriten: Mother Found Mentally Competent

The defendant's lawyer, Astrid Wagner, confirmed reports from the "Kronen Zeitung" and the daily newspaper "Kurier" to the APA. According to the expert opinion, there were no prerequisites for admission to a forensic-therapeutic center and full culpability at the time of the crime.

After conviction, a prison sentence in a penal institution is therefore likely. Wagner expected a murder charge from the public prosecutor's office, but emphasized that "there are indeed indications that the child killing occurred under the influence of a psychological exceptional situation". The defender referred in this context to the criminal offense according to paragraph 79 StGB (killing of a child at birth). Her client had been overwhelmed by the situation, Wagner emphasized.

On what basis the woman will actually be charged was still open on Sunday. The Vienna public prosecutor's office was not initially available for a request on Sunday afternoon.

Baby Found in Trash Container in Vienna-Favoriten

The then approximately one-week-old girl disappeared from the premature baby ward of the Favoriten clinic on November 21. After an alarm by a nurse, a large-scale search operation by the police followed on the clinic grounds and in the surrounding area. A day later, the baby was found dead in a trash container on Kundratstraße, not far from the hospital. The woman was subsequently arrested as a suspect and confessed to the investigators that she had killed the infant. The autopsy revealed a severe cranial trauma, multiple fractures, and blunt force trauma as the cause of death.

She had "initially planned to leave the baby somewhere outdoors," the woman told the expert. However, when the child, wrapped in a plastic bag, did not stop crying, she strangled it. "I panicked," said the mother. She then threw the baby to the ground and finally put it in a trash can.

In conversation with the expert, the Austrian woman spoke of a "botched childhood", a burdened family situation, as well as panic attacks and migraines. She had kept her pregnancy a secret from almost her "entire environment" and did not know what to do after the birth, the paper reported, citing the woman's psychiatric report.

(APA/Red)

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