An unexpected court sentence was imposed on Šilutė, who killed a one and a half month old baby

V. Tautrimas was accused of killing his defenseless youngest son. Therefore, the Prosecutor’s Office asked that the man be sentenced to 15 years in prison. The man did not admit his guilt.

A painful tragedy took place in the Šilutė apartment building in the spring, the afternoon of April 10. According to the case, while lying in bed, Virginijus Tautrimas, drunk (3.01 per thousand of alcohol), put his hand on the head of the crying baby while he was lying on his stomach. Clinging to the bedding, the baby suffocated. A one and a half month old child does not yet have the ability to lift his head or turn onto his side.

The police officers who arrived at the scene of the accident filmed the sequence of events. The baby’s mother assured me that the man had put his hand on the baby and was suffocating. The woman was doing the mixing in the kitchen at the time.

Later, the husband told law enforcement that he was cooking, not his wife.

In imposing the sentence, the court identified as mitigating the fact that the woman herself behaved in a risky manner, leaving the baby to the drunken father. The man was found to have negligently killed the baby.

The mother of the baby was paid non-pecuniary damage of 10,000 euros. The woman asked for double the amount. The man must also reimburse the funeral expenses.

The wife called the testimony a lie

In the courtroom, V. Tautrimas told the judges about his son’s love, who cared for him. It is true that he did not say when his son was born. The man said his wife’s testimony was a lie. According to the man, the accident occurred while the boy was lying in a stroller. He started crying, so he tells the baby when he slept with his wife, that she was asleep. When she went to the kitchen to prepare food for the baby, she said she heard a bang and a cry from the child. The husband assured that the child did not die immediately, taking turns with the wife still carrying the injured offspring. Blood had escaped from his mouth and he was injured when he fell.

V.Tautrimas claims that he tried to feed the baby, but did not eat. Seeing that the baby was listless, he put him in a stroller, and when he saw that the child was breathing in the air, he put him on the bed. The wife was scared.

J. Andriejauskaitės / 15min nuotr./Virginijus Tautrimas

The husband said that his only fault was that the baby was laid on a blanket and the wife was able to pull it to the side and the child fell.

The baby’s injured mother consistently explained that she had left the baby in the defendant’s care until she made the porridge in the kitchen, and when she returned to the room she found the baby lying next to the defendant. Such testimony of the victim coincided with the conclusion of the specialist that the baby died of suffocation. The panel of judges, having assessed the situation of the event and taking into account the significant circumstances established in the case, did not intentionally establish in the actions of the accused and concluded that the cause of the death of the minor is a consequence of the negligence of the accused. He was grateful and could have foreseen that by turning the baby onto his stomach and placing his hand on his head, he could suffocate and die, but due to extreme intoxication he did not foresee it.

This is the fourth son of V. Tautrimas. He told the court anticipating his birth, taking care of his beloved, washing her feet and not hurting her. It is true that several times the already convicted Šilut fue resident was also charged with domestic violence, was imposed administrative fines, did not pay them.