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Woman sentenced for dropping newborn out window, allegedly to protect her career
Live Action News ^ | July 8, 2024 | Nancy Flanders

Posted on 07/08/2024 9:17:08 AM PDT by Morgana

Katarina Jovanovic, a 28-year-old woman from Germany, has been found guilty of manslaughter in the death of her newborn baby girl. After Jovanovic gave birth at home in secret on September 12, she then dropped her newborn daughter out of the apartment window. Prosecutors alleged she committed the crime because she feared motherhood would ruin her career. Jovanovic was sentenced to just seven and a half years in prison.

“The accused was not prepared to put her life plans, especially her professional advancement, on hold for a child,” argued public prosecutor Mareike Hafendoerfer. “That was her decision when the baby was born, and as a result, the criteria for a murder conviction are fulfilled.”

Jovanovic is a lawyer who worked for Porsche Financial Services GmbH. Her attorneys argued that she did not know she was pregnant when she gave birth and was suffering a psychological episode as she held her newborn. They claimed she accidentally dropped the baby but admitted that questions remain about how the baby girl fell 12 feet out the window onto the tarmac below. That’s where passersby found her broken body with a shattered skull and called the police. The baby’s death was ruled to be the result of a traumatic brain injury.

“When she suddenly held the bloody baby in her hands, she was in an exceptional psychological situation,” said Jovanovic’s attorney Malte Höch. “It was an accident, she dropped the baby. How the child ended up over the windowsill remains to be determined.”

In April, during the trial, Jovanovic admitted to dropping her newborn daughter out the window but was unable to explain it to the court. According to reports, she “could no longer remember exactly what happened.” She told the court that she didn’t know she was pregnant, but the prosecution accused her of deliberately hiding the pregnancy, and her recent internet searches showed a strong interest in childbirth. Neighbors also told police that they had noticed a change in her behavior in recent months.

“Nobody noticed that the woman was pregnant. Recently she had changed and was no longer talking to us,” one neighbor said. “We thought she was stressed at work.”

In addition, a psychiatric expert found Jovanovic to be fully responsible for the death of her daughter.

Defense attorneys pushed for a manslaughter conviction rather than homicide but also asked for no more than a three-year sentence for Jovanovic. In the end, the court convicted her of manslaughter, sentencing her to seven and a half years.

Defense attorney Höch said he plans to appeal the ruling.


TOPICS: Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: baby; germany; infanticide; newborn; prolife
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Nein Boo Boo, diesmal waren sie es nicht.
1 posted on 07/08/2024 9:17:08 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana
she “could no longer remember exactly what happened.”

No way a father could get away with that excuse. Not in any Western country.

2 posted on 07/08/2024 9:22:02 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Morgana

Now she gets to explain a seven-year gap in her resume.

Guessing her career path is out the door.

Ain’t feminism grand?


3 posted on 07/08/2024 9:25:22 AM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: Morgana
Fiona Hunter

"Cruel Mother"

https://vimeo.com/126036017

4 posted on 07/08/2024 9:25:47 AM PDT by Rocky Mountain Wild Turkey ("I have an open mind ... just not so open that my brain falls out onto the floor!!")
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To: Morgana

“The fairer sex” my backside.


5 posted on 07/08/2024 9:26:01 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: Angelino97; All

Oh and yes for the record....Germany has Babyklappen or Babyklappe (Sorry my German is rusty on that word) which in America are Baby Boxes in which a mother or father may drop off an infant.

There was no excuse for what this woman did.


6 posted on 07/08/2024 9:26:47 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

Why did she not get an abortion?


7 posted on 07/08/2024 9:26:49 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Morgana

Das war Ich nicht!
(that was NOT me!)


8 posted on 07/08/2024 9:26:52 AM PDT by lee martell
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"feared motherhood would ruin her career"

Here are some options, cupcake.

Hand your baby over to your child welfare services department, your local fire station, your local hospital maternity ward.

Anything other than killing.

9 posted on 07/08/2024 9:27:46 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: Morgana

Manslaughter? That’s it? She intentionally killed a newborn baby. She should have been convicted of first-degree murder or the German equivalent.


10 posted on 07/08/2024 9:28:33 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Lizavetta; All

See my post 6


11 posted on 07/08/2024 9:30:11 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana
Not a surprise that someone working for Porsche, the same Porsche/Volkswagen group who also made the "People's Car" in Nazi Germany, would think that way.



12 posted on 07/08/2024 9:31:56 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Morgana
See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven continually see the face of My Father who is in heaven.

So it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones perish.

13 posted on 07/08/2024 9:33:35 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Morgana

God rest the baby.


14 posted on 07/08/2024 9:34:10 AM PDT by combat_boots
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To: Salman

She did, a post-birth abortion.


15 posted on 07/08/2024 9:35:59 AM PDT by HerrBlucher
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To: Angelino97

BS! every time a dad leaves his kid in a car to die in the heat, everybody says “well, it wasn’t part of his regular routine!” “ He forgot little Freddie was in the backseat” Poor dad! always a cover story with that.


16 posted on 07/08/2024 9:48:31 AM PDT by ronniesgal (have you even tried to mind your own business?)
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To: Morgana

Nothing to see here. Just a very, very, very late term abortion. Right to choose and all that. Move along, now.


17 posted on 07/08/2024 10:05:44 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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I wonder how 7 years in prison will further her career. Aside from the repulsiveness of the crime of murdering an innocent baby I’d say she’s not too bright to think she could get away with it. Or maybe she viewed it as a fourth trimester abortion.


18 posted on 07/08/2024 10:12:55 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: from occupied ga
I wonder how 7 years in prison will further her career.

It's a resume enhancer in leftist political circles. Especially for the reason she'll be in prison.

19 posted on 07/08/2024 10:24:38 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Salman
...Her attorneys argued that she did not know she was pregnant when she gave birth...
20 posted on 07/08/2024 10:50:44 AM PDT by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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