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Five of her children had to eat their own vomit, stay in the basement for days, and systematically starved to death. The 22-page indictment against the Zurich Horror Fathers describes incredible martyrdom over many years. The judge spoke of a year-long terrorist regime with massive consequences.
The Swiss * (48) and her ex-husband * (49) from Kosovo blamed each other in mid-August before the Zurich District Court. The verdict was passed on Thursday: both parents of the horror are guilty. She has to go to jail for 12 years, he for 16.5 years. She has been found guilty of multiple assaults and sexual assaults. He for multiple serious bodily injuries, endangering life, multiple qualified deprivations of liberty, as well as multiple sexual acts with children and multiple sexual coercion.
The defendants took note of the verdict without any apparent emotion. Apparently, not everything went well with the authorities: “The court is filing a complaint against the officials of the guardianship authority at that time,” the judge said.
Systematic famine
According to statements from the children, neighbors and doctors, the court was clear that the children were systematically locked up for years. It was a chicane and a systematic famine, she said.
The prosecutor wanted to see the woman behind bars for 13 years and her ex-husband for 15 years. Among other things for serious bodily injury and deprivation of liberty. The father is also accused of having sexually abused one of his daughters every few days for years. Y: It is said that he strangled his wife unconscious.
Hitting with sticks, fists and belt
Sadistic parenting methods are also charged: hitting almost daily with sticks, fists or a belt. Or: The children had to stand for hours against the wall with a soaked diaper on their head. It wasn’t until 2018, when the fathers of horror were arrested, that ordeal ended for the victims.
None of the defendants denied that most of the allegations were true. Alone: nobody wants to have been. Both former partners accused each other. And both demanded acquittal and compensation for the long time in prison.
With tears in his eyes, the father said, “I will never forgive myself for not realizing what my wife did to the children. I could gouge my eyes out because I didn’t see it. “At the time, however, he worked as a painter and plasterer from morning to night to support all seven children. He has never sexually assaulted his children.
The victim’s lawyer speaks of “lack of authority”
His ex’s story is completely different: “He struck from the beginning,” he said of the co-defendant. It was her husband at the time who locked up and tortured the children. “He always wanted me to do it, but I refused. So he always hit me. “
Lawyer Sven Gretler, who represents one of the now-adult victims, also made serious accusations against the Zurich authorities. The guardianship authority at the time (now Kesb) had been repeatedly warned by the kindergarten and school, to no avail: “The files show a flagrant failure of the authority. The children were left miserable. “A school doctor sounded the alarm ten years before the horror parents were arrested because the children were” systematically starved. “She wrote:” Take child protection measures immediately and remove parental controls from parents! “Nothing happened for ten years.
One victim’s attorney said in court: Victims are still suffering today and have been “mentally crippled.”
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