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Crime: Death of a three-year-old – father in custody

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Death of a three-year-old – father in custody

A father is said to have dumped his little daughter’s body in the canal. photo

© David Inderlied/dpa

A father reports to the police and claims that he threw his dead daughter into the canal. A murder squad is investigating.

After Death of a three-year-old child in Dinslaken in the Rhineland, the father is in custody for grievous bodily harm and deprivation of liberty resulting in death. This was announced by the Duisburg police and the Duisburg public prosecutor’s office. According to investigators, the 40-year-old is said to have locked the child in a cellar as punishment and then dumped him in the Rhine-Herne Canal when he died.

According to the statement, the man reported to the police in Dinslaken on Friday. He stated that his daughter had died and that he had buried her in the canal with weights attached. A murder squad is currently investigating the background, interviewing witnesses and evaluating the evidence.

According to initial findings, the German is said to have locked his daughter in the basement of an apartment building for a few days – possibly as an educational measure. He is said to have provided her with food and drink and also checked on her again and again. But on October 1st he is said to have found the girl dead in the basement. On the same day, in the evening or at night, he is said to have sunk the body, weighted with weights, into the canal near Oberhausen.

The autopsy revealed that the child died from vomited chyme. The child had no injuries. According to the statement, the father has not yet commented further to the investigators.