SKI TINGHUS (Dagbladet): On Tuesday, the trial begins against the grandmother in her 50s who is accused of attempted murder after she allegedly threw her one-year-old grandson out of a window at Nesodden.
The woman, who since 2011 has had a number of hospitalizations in psychiatry, was arrested on 4 May last year. The reason was that she herself had sought out and entered the home at Nesodden where the grandchild lives.
At the time, the grandson was asleep. Shortly afterwards, the police were contacted by the child’s father that the one-year-old had fallen out of the window on the second floor of the house – a fall of around four metres.
– Does not plead guilty, answered the woman’s defender Jorunn Hegle Hovda to a question from judge Kari Willoughby about the defendant plead guilty after the indictment.
Accused in hospital: – Didn’t talk to him
The accused choked up
The accused grandmother was led into the courtroom by two police officers on Tuesday morning. Just before 10.30, she took the witness box in the Ski courthouse.
– I’m very shaky now. It’s horrible not to remember something, said the woman, choking back tears from the witness box.
Every single day she thinks about her grandson and how he is doing, she explained.
– It’s like being in a nightmare, said the accused grandmother.
She explained that in May she was so ill that she didn’t even know who she was. She claims that the first thing she remembers from the day in question was when the police took her fingerprints after the arrest.
SERIOUS INJURY: The grandson survived the fall, but suffered, among other things, a fractured head and was hospitalized for almost five weeks. Photo: Stian Lysberg Solum / NTB Show more
Allegation of compulsory mental health care
The police believe the grandmother was psychotic when this happened. The public prosecutor’s office will submit a request for a judgment on transfer to compulsory mental health care.
The woman’s defender, Jorunn Hegle Hovda, confirms to Dagbladet that the defendant’s grandmother was seriously ill at the time, and that she is having a hard time after what has happened.
– When she came to herself and received treatment, she was confronted with the accusations, and she has no memories of what happened. We believe that the evidence situation is uncertain, and no one has seen what has happened, says Hovda, and adds:
– For us, it will be important to show that it is very uncertain, and I believe that the evidence that the prosecution had to offer is not certain enough to rule out that it could have happened in a different way.
Resumes search at the home
Police: Was psychotic
In his introductory speech, state prosecutor Johan Strand Moldestad took the court through the dramatic afternoon of 4 May. He explained that the defendant’s grandmother rang the doorbell of the home on Nesodden shortly before 3 p.m., while the father and grandson were at home.
The father of the child had just before put his son down for a nap – and within a few minutes the grandmother had made her way up to the boy’s bedroom on the second floor.
The one-year-old survived the fall, but suffered, among other things, fractures to the head and was hospitalized for almost five weeks.
– This was very dramatic for the family, especially for father who was at home, said State Attorney Moldestad.
Not long after the incident, the defendant was also observed outside the nursery of the family’s other children, according to Moldestad.
– She must have gone into the child’s department in the nursery and asked for the child. But the accused was turned away by the staff, he said.
The woman was arrested the same day and admitted to a psychiatric emergency department.
– Lives could have been lost
The defendant does not remember
The woman’s defender, Jorunn Hegle Hovda, said in his opening statement that the defendant does not even remember being in the home on the afternoon in question.
– I would first like to state that I know that this is a tough and difficult case for those involved in the case. It is especially difficult for the parents. They are also tough on my client who has not seen his family for a long time, she said, adding:
– The defendant has no memories of this incident. Waking up after a psychosis and being served these charges is tough. She doesn’t even remember being there.
Four days have been set aside for the trial in Ski courthouse.
2024-02-06 11:01:36
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