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DEAD: A boy who was admitted to St. Olav Hospital on Friday, November 4, died from his injuries on Thursday. Two caregivers are charged in the case. Photo: Ned Alley / NTB
The baby, who was admitted to St. Olav Hospital Friday with internal injuries, died. Two caretakers have been charged and placed on remand in the case.
Police said they had charged the two caregivers with serious domestic violence on Thursday, after receiving a report from the boy from St. Olav’s Hospital three days earlier.
The boy had internal injuries and was seriously injured but died Thursday afternoon, police said in a news release Friday morning.
– Relatives have been notified and are being cared for by the municipality’s crisis team and the police family contact, Trøndelag police write in a press release.
The boy has been living with the two caregivers recently. On Thursday, both were in preventive detention for four weeks, with two weeks of total isolation and a ban on receiving letters and visits for the entire period.
Police attorney Line Dreier Ramberg confirms to VG that the two defendants are not the biological parents of the children.
– It’s a placement through the child welfare service, and the defendants were not the child’s biological parents, Ramberg says by phone.
Mapping the child’s last time
The police investigation is still in its early stages.
– We give the case a high priority and have started an extensive investigation with various hypotheses, says Line Dreier Ramberg, prosecutor in the case in the Trøndelag police district.
She says they get help from their own Kripos child abuse team.
– We visualize different scenarios that can explain the tragic outcome. One of the explanations is what has now been charged, that is, that there is a crime behind it. But we are also looking at theories that medical factors may have come into play, says the police attorney.
– It will turn but every stone.
An important approach to police investigation is mapping the child’s recent time.
– Technical examinations have been carried out and an autopsy will be performed that can give us an explanation of the cause of death, says Ramberg.
– We have also conducted several interrogations and will conduct more. We questioned people who have been close and in contact with the accused, as well as health personnel, says Ramberg.
Does not understand the charge
The accused are a man and a woman. The women’s advocate, Theo Dretvik, tells VG that she does not admit criminal guilt.
– It is completely incomprehensible to the police accusations and the basis of the accusation, Dretvik tells VG.
She cannot delve further into the relationship between the woman and the child, except that she has been the child’s caretaker lately.
They also received information that the boy probably would not survive. The woman is now in custody in complete isolation.
– We had that talk, and it has made the case as bad as it can be for a caregiver in the situation she is in now. He is just in excruciating pain and it seems natural not to be able to be present with the child lately, says Dretvik.
You will speak with your client later on Friday to decide if custody should be appealed.
– The charge remains unchanged
Police attorney Ramberg confirms that the charge has not yet changed as of Friday morning.
– We believe that there are still good reasons to be suspicious of them.
VG has also been in contact with victim assistance attorney Ingrunn Kjeldstad, on whom the police have imposed a duty of confidentiality and is currently unable to comment on the case.
