Mother mentally ill

Hospital sends woman away: son (4) killed

The reason for this insane act in this Viennese municipal building in the hotspot district of Favoriten is probably a mental illness.

(Bild: Jöchl Martin/Martin Jöchl)

There are serious accusations against a Viennese hospital: they had sent away a mentally ill woman who stabbed her young son (4) to death just a few days later.

Neighbors and friends regarded them as model parents. In mid-November, however, the family drama caused horror far beyond Vienna's city limits. The mother, who was described as friendly and open-minded - she worked as an assistant in a kindergarten - allegedly stabbed her four-year-old son to death!

Mental illness 
The background to the insane act in a municipal building in the hotspot district of Favoriten is probably a mental illness. The 29-year-old woman, who is being investigated on suspicion of murder, is now being held in a forensic facility. If a court-appointed expert comes to the conclusion that the young woman was mentally incompetent at the time of the crime due to a mental illness, then there will be no murder charge, but an application for immediate hospitalization.

She was such a nice woman, worked in a kindergarten and gave advice on raising children.

Nachbarin beim „Krone“-Lokalaugenschein

Now the bombshell: the tragedy behind the tragedy is hidden in court file 203St 187/24 of the Vienna Regional Court. According to statements made by the distraught husband and father, the 29-year-old, who had been suffering from severe mental problems for some time, was in a Viennese hospital a few days before the tragedy and asked to be admitted there. But instead of inpatient treatment, the hospital sent the mother home with medication - a death sentence for the four-year-old!

When father wasn't watching, sneaked into children's room
When the father was no longer looking after his wife due to exhaustion, the blonde Turkish woman sneaked into her son's room in the morning - and killed her one and only with a knife. Heartbreaking scenes unfolded at the scene of the crime in front of the alerted police officers. The man sat in the stairwell covered in blood and in tears, while his son's small body was covered in cuts and stitches upstairs in the apartment.