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![On Wednesday, a couple who are said to have tortured their own children for years will stand before the Zurich District Court.]()
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On Wednesday, a couple who are said to have tortured their own children for years will stand before the Zurich District Court.
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![The charges include serious assault.]()
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The charges include serious assault.
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![According to the prosecution, the children were beaten with sticks and fists, neglected and starved.]()
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According to the prosecution, the children were beaten with sticks and fists, neglected and starved.
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Five children from Zurich have been tortured, neglected and sexually abused for years. The perpetrators: your own parents! On Wednesday, the Swiss woman * (48) and her ex-husband * (49) from Kosovo stood before the Zurich District Court. The allegations are massive: According to the indictment, a child was forced to eat its own feces. Another was pressed face down into vomit. The two parents blamed each other in front of the judge.
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According to the indictment, in 2003 the two of them stopped feeding two of their seven children. At the age of six and seven, the parents are said to have started locking up the two children. So long that they had to do their business on the ground.
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Soaked diaper on the head
The indictment also speaks of sadistic methods of punishment: the children are said to have been beaten almost every day with sticks, fists and a belt. Or they had to stand against the wall for hours with a soaked diaper on their head.
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Another daughter is said to have been sexually abused by the father over and over again for years. And: once he choked his wife to the point of unconsciousness. The indictment is a 22-page string of tortures. It wasn’t until 2018, when the horror parents were arrested, that the ordeal ended.
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Father and mother accuse each other
The fact that all of these things actually happened was not denied in court by any of the now divorced spouses. But: mother and father accused each other.
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With tears in his eyes, the father defended himself in a statement that he had prepared in writing: “I will never forgive myself for not noticing what my wife did to the children. I could tear my eyes out that I didn’t see it. ” At that time, however, he worked as a painter and plasterer from morning to night in order to support the seven children. Therefore, he did not notice what his then wife was doing to the children. He has never sexually assaulted his children: “I’m not that kind of person.”
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The fact that his own children incriminated him heavily in the police force is, for the defendant, the work of his ex. “She manipulated the children into saying that.” And: “Don’t let yourself be dazzled just because I’m the man.” He admitted to having given the victims “one on the fingers” from time to time.
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Violent marriage
His ex-wife told a completely different story. She described a violent marriage. “He struck from the start,” she said of the co-defendant. On one occasion he strangled her until she passed out. “But I was dependent on him.” It was also her husband who locked up and tortured the children. “He always wanted me to do it, but I refused. Then he always hit me. “
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Why one of the children should burden their own mother wrong remained open. The statement of the accused mother: “She has always lied and acted.”
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Both parents are responsible for the public prosecutor’s office. Both would have struck. And both knew – and agreed – what the other partner was doing to the children. Therefore, both are in the dock, among other things for grievous bodily harm and deprivation of liberty. The prosecutor demands a 15-year prison sentence for the father. The mother is said to be behind bars for 13 years.
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How the children – today young adults – are doing is hinted at in the indictment: The two who were most tortured are now dependent on a disability pension. A lawyer for the victims said in court: The children had been made “mentally crippled”.
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The verdict will follow in early September.
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