An anesthetist injected contaminated anesthetic into several children. (symbol image)
Julian Stratenschulte/dpa
The man had injected children with contaminated anesthetic for dental treatment, and a girl died in the practice. Now he should go to prison for ten and a half years.
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- An anesthetist was sentenced to ten and a half years in prison by the Frankfurt regional court for, among other things, the manslaughter of a girl.
- The man had injected children with contaminated anesthetic for dental treatment.
An anesthetist was sentenced to ten and a half years in prison by the Frankfurt regional court for, among other things, the manslaughter of a girl. The cases of the three surviving children involved attempted homicide by omission, said the presiding judge in her verdict.
The now 67-year-old did not intend for the children to die, but accepted it with approval. “He had probably hoped, albeit without good reason, that everything would go well.” The anesthesiologist recorded the verdict without any outward emotion.
The German injected a total of four children with contaminated anesthetic in a dental practice in Kronberg (Hochtaunuskreis) in September 2021 and committed other blatant hygiene errors. The little patients suffered from blood poisoning, and the four-year-old girl died in the dentist’s chair that night.
Nevertheless, in the following days, the man living in Bensheim brushed off the questions of the concerned parents of the three other children and told the dentist that one should “not make such a big deal”. In the end, the parents took their children to the clinic anyway; one boy and one girl barely survived. The judgment is not final.
