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In the case of the boy (3) from Ebbs near Kufstein (Tyrol) who starved to death at home, new shocking details are coming to light. The parents are suspected of murder.
Kufstein – The starvation death of the three-year-old boy from the town of Ebbs north of Kufstein, directly on the German border, shocked the whole of Austria and the Bavarian neighborhood. A request was made against the boy’s parents to remand him in custody, which was Both are suspected of murder. The father refuses to testify oe24.at Any statement that the mother is speaking is not credible.
Tragedy in Austria: Little boy (3) found dead in bed – parents suspected of murder
According to the spokesman for the Innsbruck public prosecutor’s office, Hansjörg Mayr, “according to investigations so far, there is a suspicion that the suspects failed to provide the three-year-old boy with adequate food and fluids over a period of at least several weeks and failed to contact a doctor despite the obvious deterioration of his health and his apparent weight loss, so that the child died as a result of his severe malnutrition.”
On Wednesday (22 May), the Austrian parents (25 and 26 years old) suspected of the crime were arrested after an inpatient stay due to a state of mental emergency. The first interrogations followed on Thursday (23 May).
Boy was not fed, “even though he cried and screamed”
The public prosecutor also announced that the father, a professional driver, had exercised his right to remain silent. His wife, on the other hand, stated that “the child had been ill in recent weeks and had no appetite. A visit to the doctor was planned for the near future.” The prosecutors confirmed to oe24.at There are rumors in the town that the boy had been lying dead in his bed for some time before his father raised the alarm on Monday. According to this, the time of death was on Pentecost Sunday. The three sisters (1, 3 and 6 years old) therefore had no signs of deficiency. The child and youth welfare service has taken them into care.
The extent to which the child’s death could have other, medical causes will be clarified in further investigations – but so far there is no evidence of this. In summary, it can be said that the boy “was not fed, although he was crying and screaming, while his twin sister and the other two girls (1 and 6 years old) were cared for and looked after,” it says.
Parents are said to have celebrated the boy’s birthday with his sisters
On the Friday before Pentecost, the parents even celebrated the eldest daughter’s birthday in a fast-food burger restaurant – while the little one was dying alone at home, reports oe24.at. At the weekend, the family even went to a big knights’ festival in Kufstein – again without the boy. According to Picture Neighbors observed that the family often had food delivered. The role of the grandmother, who is said to have looked after the children from time to time, is unclear. She vehemently assured journalists that she had not noticed anything.
In Lower Austria, a woman and her accomplice were recently sentenced to long prison terms for locking her son (12) in a dog crate and torturing him almost to death. The case of Josef Fritzl, who kept his daughter imprisoned in an underground apartment from 1984 to 2008, also took place in Lower Austria.
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