In the case of a dead ten-year-old girl in Wunsiedel, the public prosecutor assumes a homicide. That said Matthias Goers from the public prosecutor’s office in Hof on Thursday. There are currently neither accused nor suspects in the case, he emphasized.
The girl had lived in a youth welfare facility in Wunsiedel. Employees found the ten-year-old lifeless there on Tuesday morning. An emergency medical team could only determine death. It is currently being determined in all directions, Goers said. On Thursday, forensics were still on site at the facility, and other witnesses were also questioned.
In addition to Bavaria’s Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann, Family and Social Affairs Minister Ulrike Scharf has now expressed her deepest concern over the death of a girl. “No one can put this incredible tragedy into words and understand it. I am shocked. My deepest sympathy goes to the relatives – I am with you in my thoughts,” said the CSU politician. “For me there is now no question that the children and young people and especially the employees in the St. Josef facility in Wunsiedel are looked after, accompanied and supported in the best possible way,” she continued. The minister wants to be in Wunsiedel on Thursday afternoon and express her sympathy, it said.
The sponsor of the Upper Franconian children’s home, in which a dead ten-year-old girl was found, wants to work through the events with the help of a crisis team. In this situation, the young residents from the youth welfare facility in Wunsiedel needed familiar people who would continue to take care of them, said the Catholic youth welfare service of the Regensburg diocese. “They need the opportunity to be able to ask any questions they have, and they need answers that are child- and age-appropriate.”