Germany: Mother confesses to killing her five young sons
A mother killed her five sons aged between three and nine then confessed to her doctor.
The bodies of the boys were found in their home in Darry, Germany yesterday.
It is believed they were given pills and then suffocated with plastic bags.
The mother, whose name has not been released, was ordered to be held in psychiatric care.
“We have requested the woman be held in a secure psychiatric facility because we assume that she represents a general danger to the public,” a police spokesman said.
The discovery of the dead brothers came on the same day that authorities in eastern Germany announced they had found the bodies of three baby girls and had taken their mother into custody on manslaughter charges. The woman has denied killing her daughters.
The first body was found November 27 in the eastern city of Plauen after authorities asked why the child, born in a clinic in 2002, had not yet been brought for a required check-up before starting school.
The baby girl’s body was found wrapped in plastic and hidden in a suitcase in a storage area of a relative’s home, police said. Two other bodies of baby girls, also wrapped in plastic, were found on Tuesday in the mother’s home, police said.
The 28-year-old woman, who was not been identified, was taken into custody. Her two surviving children a baby and a child in primary school, were taken into protective custody.
