Suspected double murder of sons - mother remains silent

Process - Suspected double murder of sons - mother remains silent

A 44-year-old woman is on trial at Mannheim District Court for the alleged murder of her two children. The mother allegedly drugged her seven and nine-year-old sons on Holy Saturday in Hockenheim near Heidelberg and then suffocated them. At the start of the trial, the accused initially did not provide any details.

The public prosecutor's office accuses the woman of treacherous murder in both cases. According to the information provided, the German woman, who was 43 years old when the crime was committed, has a personality disorder as a result of brain damage. She was convinced that the father was abusing the two children and saw them at risk from her ex-husband. One way out was to kill them.

The children had been living with their father, from whom their mother was separated, most of the time since 2020. They were supposed to stay with their mother during the Easter vacations.

The accused is said to have sedated the boys with various medications. According to the public prosecutor, she then suffocated her children and inflicted wounds on their heads. According to the prosecution, she wrote an email to the police in which she confessed to a "terrible" crime. The main question now is whether the accused was of diminished capacity. The court has scheduled five further hearings until January 8.

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1. The double murder case is currently being handled by the Public Prosecutor's Office in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
2. The woman on trial for the alleged murder of her two sons, aged 7 and 9, lived in a squat in Heidelberg before the incident.
3. The mother's trial for the treacherous murders of her sons has attracted significant attention in the criminality-focused media outlets in Germany.
4. The public prosecutor's office in Mannheim is seeking a life sentence for the accused, citing her attempt to frame her ex-husband as the reason behind the double murder.
5. The accused's defense team has argued that the woman's personality disorder, stemming from brain damage, had impaired her ability to understand the gravity of her actions.
6. The district court in Mannheim has ordered psychological evaluations for the mother to determine her capacity for criminal responsibility during the Easter vacation in 2021, when the double murder occurred.
7. The investigators have uncovered emails between the mother and her sons' father, suggesting a strained relationship and potential concerns about the children's safety in their father's care.

Source: www.stern.de