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A 31-year-old woman is said to have killed her three young children in an apartment in Vienna-Donaustadt. After a suicide attempt, which, according to the police, did not cause fatal injuries, the woman reported the emergency number where she had confessed to the crime of homicide. The three- and nine-year-old girls and the eight-month-old boy died of suffocation, according to preliminary forensic information. Doctors fought for the lives of the elderly for about an hour.
Because the Nepalese woman announced in the emergency call that she wanted to commit suicide, the first emergency services immobilized her on the spot. “During an immediate search of the house, police officers found two girls with clear signs of death. A third girl was hospitalized, but resuscitation was unsuccessful,” said police spokesman Paul Eidenberger.
The mother made the emergency call around 5:20 am Emergency forces rushed to the apartment building near Kagraner Platz. According to Eidenberger, the woman herself had injuries to the area of her hand that were not serious enough to have taken her to hospital. A medical officer has now assessed the 31-year-old man as capable of questioning and responsible.
The woman confessed to him during questioning. From the family environment it was reported that the woman should have been in a psychologically difficult situation since the child’s birth. There was a dispute with the 44-year-old man, apparently there was a separation or divorce in the room. The 31-year-old is said to have feared losing her children in this case.
Parents have been fighting for weeks
In the family, who had evidently lived in Austria for years, a violent argument with mutual assaults had broken out a few weeks ago, which ended with the 44-year-old’s expulsion. “The prohibition to enter and approach was imposed, which ended at the end of September and has not been extended to a temporary precautionary measure,” which the 31-year-old may have requested, the police spokesman said.
Children’s autopsies should be done on Saturday night. Any help came too late for the two youngest. Rescuers found the nine-year-old girl dead, but there was apparently hope that she could be resurrected. The helpers tried to revive the boy for about an hour, but ultimately to no avail.
Danger according to child and youth welfare “not foreseeable”
The Vienna Child and Youth Welfare Service “has known the family for two weeks when the police informed them about the eviction,” said its spokesperson Andrea Friemel. In the case of evictions, what is known as risk assessment begins as a standard. “During this procedure, there were personal and telephone contacts with parents and children, as well as with the school and the Vienna Intervention Center against family violence. A risk to the children “was not foreseeable during the contacts.” Regarding the relationship conflict between the parents, the need for counseling was perceived, therefore counseling appointments were organized with the support of an interpreter. “Such a tragic act by the mother is shocking and unpredictable,” Friemel said. (apa)
