Parents under suspicion

Baby’s body in the garbage: new shocking details revealed

According to the police, the child's body was discovered in a garbage bag in a hotel.

(Bild: Martina Münzer)

Just two days after the heinous crime in which a newborn baby was discovered dead in a garbage bag in the garbage room of a hotel in Simmering, there are now new details about the case. The child's mother (21) and her 25-year-old partner are from Burgenland. The 21-year-old was arrested. The 25-year-old has been released. According to "Krone" information, the baby was still alive at birth. Investigators are stunned by what happened afterwards ...

The discovery made by hotel staff at a hotel in Simmering is hard to take. A baby's body was discovered wrapped in a bin bag in a garbage room. The child's mother and her partner were on vacation in the capital. They are considered urgent suspects.

Killed and wrapped in a bin liner
But what the initial investigations reveal is hard to believe: According to information from the "Krone" newspaper, the baby was still alive at birth. The newborn - probably a boy - is said to have been strangled and packed in a garbage bag. The 21-year-old woman stated that she had "grabbed the child by the neck and strangled it", according to the police.

According to the Vienna police, the mother confessed to the use of violence in a further interrogation. Further investigations are underway to find out more about the motive. Both detainees are currently still in police custody pending further dispositions by the Vienna public prosecutor's office.

Even before the staff made the heinous discovery on Monday, emergency services were called to the hotel because the 21-year-old Austrian woman was bleeding heavily in her abdomen. The woman was taken to a hospital in the Landstraße district. There, the doctors determined that the 21-year-old must have given birth shortly before. According to the reports, the young woman initially vehemently denied that she had given birth. Her partner also claimed not to have known that his partner was pregnant.

Hotel staff in shock
Due to the suspicion that a newborn baby might be missing, the hospital staff informed the hotel where the woman was staying. It was there that the hotel staff made the shocking discovery. 

Third infanticide in just a few weeks
This is the third infanticide in just a few weeks. A dead baby was found at the end of November in a waste container in Kundratstraße, not far from the Favoriten clinic in Vienna. A murder of a four-year-old boy also took place in Favoriten in mid-November.