Painted and without a tear, the mother accused of killing five of her six children by throwing drugs at them at breakfast and strangling them with a towel after an argument with her ex-husband appeared in court in Wuppertal, Germany.
The reading of the indictment for 28-year-old Christian K., who did not speak and is not expected to testify, was creepy. The woman allegedly gave the children, aged one to eight, a cocktail of three drugs to “bring them into a state of semi-narcotics” so that they would be more obedient, and then took them to the bathroom one by one and strangled them with a towel or while diving. in the bathtub. Her motive is said to have been revenge on her ex because she had learned he had found another woman. Christian, a mother of six who faces life in prison if convicted, insists the children were killed by a masked intruder.
The bodies of her children, three girls one, two and three years old and her two boys, six and eight years old, were found in her North Rhine-Westphalia apartment on September 3. He had placed them on their beds, all wrapped in towels. She then attempted suicide by falling in front of a train at Düsseldorf station, but was rescued without serious injuries. Her sixth child, 11-year-old Marcel, was saved because she was at school.
