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Bonn Court Sentences Father to Ten Years for Infant’s Shaking Death

The mother was handed a suspended 18-month term for failing to shield her child despite witness accounts of repeated abuse.

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Weil er sein Baby tot geschüttelt hat, hat das Landgericht Bonn einen Vater zu zehn Jahren Haft verurteilt. Schuldig gesprochen wurde er unter anderem wegen Totschlags, wie eine Gerichtssprecherin der Nachrichtenagentur AFP sagte.

Overview

  • On August 14 the Bonner Landgericht sentenced the 28-year-old father to ten years in prison for manslaughter, dangerous bodily harm and mistreatment of a ward.
  • Medical experts concluded that a violent shaking on October 26 caused life-threatening intracranial bleeding and the infant died on November 30 in Bonn’s children’s clinic.
  • The father denied the allegations at trial, but judges credited the mother’s testimony about earlier assaults that led to nosebleeds and rapid head swelling.
  • The 22-year-old mother received an 18-month suspended sentence after the court determined she knew of the violence and failed to intervene.
  • The couple, who fled the war in Ukraine and lived in a Bonn refugee shelter, saw their surviving son placed into protective care following the verdict.