INVESTIGATED: Forensic technicians from the police at the scene in May. Photo: Stian Lysberg Solum / NTB
The police believe the grandmother was psychotic when the grandchild was seriously injured.
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It was in May this year that a one-year-old child was flown to hospital with serious injuries after falling out of a window on the second floor of a house in Nesodden.
A woman in her 50s was charged with attempted murder as a result of the incident, and she is now being prosecuted for the same.
In the indictment drawn up by the State Attorneys in Oslo, it appears that the prosecution will submit a request for a sentence on transfer to compulsory mental health care compulsory mental health care Compulsory mental health care is something the court can sentence people to instead of prison, if the court believes the convicted person was not sane at the time of the offense happened. .
The prosecution believes the woman threw the child out of the window in a psychotic state, and thus was not sane sane Section 20 of the Criminal Code states that anyone who has a “strongly deviant state of mind”, “severe disturbance of consciousness” or “high degree of mental retardation” at the time of the crime is not criminally responsible.when the episode took place.
In the indictment, it appears that the child suffered head injuries.
– We believe she has done what is stated in the indictment, says state attorney Johan Strand Moldestad to VG.
– We are submitting a request for a transfer to mental health care because we believe that she did not have the capacity to blame at the time of the act, and because we are of the opinion that there is an imminent danger of similar offenses in the future.
The grandmother’s defense attorney says she has not yet been able to talk to her about it, but that the indictment is as expected.
– She does not plead guilty, and beyond that I have no comment, says defense attorney Jorunn Hegle Hovda at Aurlien Vordahl & Co Advokatfirma.
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Published: 24.11.23 at 14:51
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