Spectacular trial
The tortured boy from Lower Austria: two mothers on trial
In 2022, she tortured her then twelve-year-old son almost to death. Next week, the Lower Austrian woman - and her alleged accomplice - will go on trial at Krems Regional Court.
Three days have been set aside for the spectacular trial, which will begin on Monday in Krems. The accused are a woman from Lower Austria who allegedly tortured her then twelve-year-old boy almost to death in 2022 - and her alleged accomplice, her former best friend.
The statements of the two defendants
The two women, long enemies, have been in the forensic center in Asten, Upper Austria, for months because they are considered mentally abnormal, according to court psychiatrist Peter Hofmann; they will not be brought to the trial venue until the morning of February 26.
Around 30 journalists - including foreign journalists - are expected to be in the courtroom.
How will the defendants answer? The horror mother will repeat the absurd statements she has already made to the police: "I was overwhelmed with raising my son, so I sometimes locked him in a dog crate - on the advice of my girlfriend. To keep him quiet and to avoid him attacking me. But I never really wanted to harm him or seriously hurt him."
"Yes, I sometimes gave the boy's mother discipline tips," the second defendant, herself a mother of four, now admits: "I advised her to hit him and splash him with cold water when he attacked her. But I knew nothing of the terrible extent to which she followed my suggestions."
The women are due to be sentenced next Thursday; the horror mother faces life imprisonment, her - former - girlfriend 15 years.
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