Children died after injuries in Trøndelag – they were relocated by the child welfare service

The boy, who is less than a year old, was admitted to St. Olav Hospital with internal injuries on Friday of last week. On Monday, the police launched an investigation after being notified by the hospital.

– The boy was pronounced dead Thursday afternoon at St. Olav Hospital. Family members have been notified and are being cared for, police wrote in a press release Friday morning.

The police have charged two caregivers with whom the boy has recently lived, of serious domestic violence or complicity in this. The two, a woman and a man, were placed in pre-trial detention by the Inntrøndelag District Court on Thursday.

– The child was placed with the two defendants through the child welfare service, the prosecutor in the case, Line Dreier Ramberg in the Trøndelag police district, tells NTB.

Internal damage

The police attorney further says that the police currently do not want to come out with the kind of injuries the child has suffered, except that it involves internal injuries. An autopsy will be performed shortly.

The two defendants are in preventive detention for four weeks, of which two weeks in total isolation, with a letter and visitation ban for four weeks and two weeks with a media ban. The background is the risk of loss of evidence.

– It was the defendants themselves who contacted the hospital. They have been explained to the police and during Thursday’s prison meeting, but there are several circumstances in the case that make the police and the district court believe that there is a basis to charge them, Ramberg continues.

Great investigation

– The investigation is still in the early stages. We’ve started a big investigation, we put the case high priority, and we’ve started an extensive investigation with various hypotheses, Ramberg says.

She says that the police, first and foremost, will map the boy’s recent weather.

– We have carried out a series of interrogations, technical examinations have been carried out and an autopsy will be carried out in the next few days, which may provide more information on the cause of death, says Ramberg.

Heavy

The man and woman accused had been named defenders on Thursday who gave brief statements in relation to the prison meetings.

The women’s advocate, lawyer Theo Dretvik, later stated that his client takes the charges very seriously.

– She finds the police accusations terrible, Dretvik said.

The defendant also denies criminal guilt.

– It is completely incomprehensible that he is accused in the case. Naturally, it’s absolutely terrible, said the man’s defender, attorney Per Ove Sørholt.