Saxony-Anhalt
Dead two-year-old in Halle: father arrested
View of a residential building in Halle, where a two-year-old girl was found dead in an apartment on Sunday. photo
© Hendrik Schmidt/dpa
A two-year-old girl was found dead in an apartment in Halle on Sunday. Now the child’s father has been arrested. He, his wife and the child’s grandmother are under investigation.
The autopsy on the two-year-old’s body revealed that the child died last Sunday from major skin scalding. According to current investigations, the girl suffered the scalding two days before her death.
The father, the 36-year-old mother and the 63-year-old grandmother are accused of knowing that the girl had life-threatening injuries and yet not having her rescued, the police said. In doing so, they would have accepted the death of the child. According to the information, investigators searched the suspects’ apartments on Wednesday.
Last Sunday, around 2 p.m., the control center received an emergency call about a medical emergency in an apartment in the Paulusviertel. According to police, the rescue workers found the girl lifeless in the apartment in an apartment building. Attempts to revive it were unsuccessful.