Image by Tex Texin/ CC BY 2.0 - A German woman on trial in one of Germany’s worst infanticide cases was given a 14-year jail sentence
- The bodies of the 8 newborn babies were found at Andrea Goeppner’s apartment last year
- Goeppner admitted she killed some of her babies but claims she can’t remember exactly how many she killed
A German mother on trial in one of Germany’s worst infanticide cases, involving eight infants, was found guilty of the crime and was given a 14-year jail sentence on Wednesday, July 20.
45-year-old Andrea Goeppner admitted she killed some of her babies but claimed she can’t remember exactly how many she killed.
International Business Times quoted her as telling the court: “It could have been two, three or four.”
The bodies of the eight newborn babies, which have been killed between 2003 and 2013, were found wrapped in towels and plastic bags at Goeppner’s apartment last year.
The police only charged Goeppner with four murders because one of the infants was found to have been stillborn and the other three were so badly decomposed that it was hard to determine whether they were viable at birth.
According to an article published by Sky News, through her lawyer, Goeppner confessed that she had given birth to each of the eight babies alone at home and whenever any baby moved or cried, she would immediately suffocate the baby. Afterwards, she would put the body in a plastic bag or containers and hide it in her apartment.
As for Goeppner’s estranged husband, Johann Goeppner, he had been acquitted on charges of complicity for failing to stop the murders.
The former couple, who had two children each from previous marriages and three surviving children together, did not want more children but did not use contraceptives.
Although they did not want more children, they did not use contraception and state prosecutors said that Andrea Goeppner wanted to remain sexually active without any thought about the consequences or the value of a newborn child.
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