The unloved daughter

Bloody revenge: “I didn’t want to kill my mommy”

The young perpetrator at her trial: "When my mother was angry with me, I sometimes wished that she would die. But I didn't really want to kill her. Because I loved her."

(Bild: GEORG HOCHMUTH / APA / picturedesk.com)

Angelika spoke little, had no friends, thought she was ugly and was miserable. At 14, she killed her mother: "Because she never hugged me." This reveals a picture of a daughter who was not only a perpetrator, but also a victim of mental and physical violence.

It is Tuesday, April 10, 2010, the day Angelika will kill her mother. A day that begins "completely normally", like so many other days before in the 14-year-old's life.

"Everything was actually as usual, at first", the schoolgirl later said in police interviews. She meant, as child and adolescent psychiatrist Werner Gerstl wrote months later in a court report, that she had long since become accustomed to her oppressive domestic situation and her loneliness.

As always, Angelika wakes up early, at 5.30 a.m., crawls out of the bunk bed she shares with her brother, who is two years younger than her, which is in her parents' bedroom - and goes into the second room of the small old apartment in Vienna-Margareten; she sits down on the couch, switches on the TV, her mother finds it disturbing and scolds her for it. As always.