The educator who is said to have killed the three-year-old daycare child is on trial for murder
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Murder Trial: Defendant Denies Everything
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The educator said she was a victim of a crime even as a teenager.
Photo: dpa / Rolf Vennenbernd
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MÖNCHENGLADBACH (dpa). In the trial of the three-year-old child Greta, the accused educator denied all allegations. In a defense attorney’s statement on Thursday, she had all allegations rejected.
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The 25-year-old German is accused of compressing Greta’s chest so tightly during her midday nap in her daycare center in Viersen on the Lower Rhine in April this year that the girl later died in hospital. She is therefore charged with murder before the Mönchengladbach regional court.
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Before the statement was read out, the defendant provided information about herself. She described her school career, her training as an educator and her professional stations. She also said she was sexually abused by an uncle when she was 15 years old.
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In addition to the murder of Greta, the defendant is also charged with mistreating people in care in eight other cases. Because already in other daycare centers in Krefeld, Kempen and Tönisvorst, she is said to have pressed the chests of children tightly and put them in mortal danger.
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Each time she raised the alarm shortly afterwards, so that emergency services were called and the children survived. These cases were only known and put into context through the investigation after Greta’s death. If the accused is found guilty of the murder, she faces a life sentence.
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The Mönchengladbach regional court wants to hear more than 20 witnesses in the proceedings. Co-plaintiffs are Greta’s mother and two other allegedly abused children from Krefeld and Kempen.
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There have also been allegations against the judicial authorities in connection with the case. Because in 2019, when she had long been working as a kindergarten teacher, the kindergarten teacher attracted attention for pretending to be a criminal offense in her hometown of Geldern. A doctor stated that she urgently needed psychological help, which the educator herself confirmed. But the supervisory authority, the state youth welfare office, was not informed about the woman’s mental health by the public prosecutor.
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