A court in Essen, Germany, has found a 16-year-old Ukrainian boy guilty of murdering a 32-year-old woman and her 1-year-and-7-month-old daughter. The court sentenced him to 10 years in a juvenile detention facility following the violent incident that occurred in June 2022.
The trial was conducted behind closed doors due to the defendant’s age. According to a court representative, the teenager admitted to killing his neighbor and her child by striking them with his hands and feet in a forested area of Dorsten, located in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Investigators determined that the boy and the victims were “acquaintances.” Reports suggest that prior to the attack, there was a sexual encounter between the boy and the woman. After the bodies were discovered, the teenager turned himself in to the police. However, the judges noted that they could not ascertain the motive behind the violent act.
The teenager will now serve his sentence in a juvenile correctional facility. The verdict has not yet become legally binding and may be appealed.
Details surrounding the case indicate that the bodies of the mother and daughter were found on June 29, 2022, on a forest path in Dorsten. A passerby initially assumed the mother was asleep before realizing the gravity of the situation. The child’s body was located nearby in the bushes.
Both victims had been residing in Dorsten-Holsterhausen. Autopsy results confirmed suspicions of violent death, leading authorities to pursue charges against the teenager.
On June 30, the German prosecutor’s office announced that the 16-year-old had confessed to the murders.
A German court has sentenced a 16-year-old boy to 10 years for the murder of a Ukrainian mother and her young daughter. The case, which involved a confession, remains under scrutiny as the verdict can still be appealed.
Source: n-tv