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The death of a three-year-old child has shocked Austria. The public prosecutor’s office has expressed dark suspicions. Many questions remain unanswered.
Kufstein – The results of the autopsy are available. The boy (3) probably died of massive malnutrition, reports the ORF citing the police. According to the public prosecutor’s office, the child’s Austrian parents are suspected of murder. The couple also have three other children, aged three (the dead boy’s twin sister), one and six years old. What happened?
Three-year-old died of malnutrition in Austria (Tyrol).
The three-year-old’s father informed the police in Tyrol (Austria) on Whit Monday (May 20) that his son was dead in bed. When the police and rescue workers arrived, there was nothing they could do for the child, Austrian media reported unanimously. The boy had died. The couple was treated in hospital due to an exceptional psychological situation. The two were arrested on suspicion of murder as they left the hospital on Wednesday afternoon.
“Child extremely malnourished” – Three-year-old dies of malnutrition in Austria (Tyrol)
“We must assume that the parents fed the child extremely poorly,” the Tyrolean daily newspaper the spokesman for the Innsbruck public prosecutor’s office Hansjörg Mayr. “There is a suspicion that the father and mother accepted the death of the child.” According to the oRf The child had been malnourished for a long period of time. This was the preliminary result of a forensic autopsy.
Brother dies of malnutrition – siblings are all girls and normally nourished
The three other siblings – girls aged one, three and six years – are therefore normally developed and have no deficiency symptoms. They have been in the care of child and youth welfare since Monday. The family is said to have been inconspicuous to the authorities, according to the public prosecutor’s office.
It is still unclear why only the three-year-old boy suffered from malnutrition. The child’s parents are scheduled to be questioned on Thursday, it is said.
In another sensational case in Austria, a mother and her accomplice were sentenced to long prison terms. The mother locked her son (12) in a dog crate and tortured him almost to death.(ml)
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