Posted on 04/12/2008 7:00:46 PM PDT by markomalley
A German appeal court has confirmed a 15-year prison sentence handed to a woman for killing eight of her newborn babies in the country's worst post-war infanticide case.
The court in Frankfurt an der Oder in eastern Germany found that the fact 42-year-old Sabine Hilschenz was an alcoholic did not reduce her accountability for the crime.
The divorced, unemployed dental assistant was found guilty of eight counts of manslaughter in 2006 for routinely killing her offspring.
Hilschenz had told investigators that she did not harm the children but left them to die after giving birth alone every time following heavy drinking.
The remains of the babies were found in buckets and flowerpots at the home she shared with her husband, and in an old fish tank at the home of her parents in the town of Brieskow-Finkenheerd in former communist east Germany.
Hilschenz gave birth to nine babies, two boys and seven girls, between 1988 and 1998.
She was also accused of killing the first of the nine babies, born in 1988, but the lower court ruled that the time in which she could be charged in connection with that death had lapsed.
Hilschenz divorced her husband, who was believed to have worked for the feared East German secret police, the Stasi, in 2005 after years of marital strife.
The couple have three surviving children and the court heard that he had not wanted any more.
He declined to testify in the trial, but a separate investigation has been launched into his role in the affair.
1-7/8 years per baby?
What would Peter Singer say?
I think I'm gonna be sick.
Manslaughter??? YGTBSM.
Kill and adult, it’s murder. Kill a baby and it’s manslaughter. Despicable.
HMMM-MMM. Something stinks there...
> He declined to testify in the trial, but a separate investigation has been launched into his role in the affair.
I'll bet. But given that he was in the East German Secret Police, it may not get very far.
What a horrible situation. My skin crawls, reading it.
This woman must be insane. First of all, if she didn’t want anymore kids, why not get herself fixed? Second of all, surely she had to know that her babies were worth dam good money to childless parents. They would’ve paid her very well for those babies. She could’ve been rich by now AND basically worshipped for the service she would’ve been providing to those that want her babies.
The only explanation is insanity.
Kill before birth and it's "a procedure".
There are no words....
Ping
Only 15 years? Give her 350 years.
I’m really beginning to wonder how much longer it will be before God just says “enough is enough” and puts an end to this failing experiment.
Give her a taste of her own medicine -
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT!
No jail on earth is as bad as hell.
Probably blame that on the UN/EU.
I guess that’s what you get when you are “enlightened”,
Leave it to the Germans...
Mengele would be so proud.
Most people would not want a baby with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome if they had foreknowledge, in light of the report that she drank heavily during the pregnancies.
I will never understand this sort of thing - except that it is EVIL.
But sterilize such a feind first, so she doesn’t repeat her demonic performance.
No sense of proportion. The cannibal murderer initially got
8 years. The only thing that outrages them is panties tossed
on an islamists’s head.
Ohmigosh!
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