In Bayreuth, the proceedings against a 19-year-old who is said to be responsible for the death of her newborn begin. According to the investigators, it is said to have died in an opaque garbage bag.
As of this Friday, a woman who is said to have killed her newborn child in July 2021 and placed it in the garbage can of a property in Heinersreuth (Bayreuth district) will have to answer at the Bayreuth district court. The public prosecutor assumes that the woman, who was 19 at the time of the crime, had known that she was pregnant since June 2021 at the latest, but wanted to keep it secret.
According to the prosecution, she should have intended that nobody miss the newborn. In order not to reveal her pregnancy, she wore loose clothing, left questions unanswered and avoided contacts, according to the public prosecutor. According to the investigation, the newborn child is said to have been viable and healthy when it was born. It is said to have died in an opaque garbage bag, probably from a lack of oxygen or hypothermia. A neighbor noticed the garbage bag later. The charge is manslaughter.