He shouted “Better no child than such a shitty child”. Then nurse Erick O. (34) allegedly tried to break the neck of his son (10 months)!
The Kenyan-born nurse has to answer for the attempted murder of his own child at the Aschaffenburg Regional Court. In the process, he once collected donations for orphans in his African homeland and gave lectures to primary school pupils in the Odenwald.
During the trial, the man did not comment on the charges brought by senior public prosecutor Jürgen Bundschuh. Instead, the boy’s mother described in horrifying detail the ordeal of their son on October 25, 2022, in a flat in Aschaffenburg. Her partner allegedly threw the child to the floor and against a cupboard three times – just because the child did not want to fall asleep!
Anna B. (30, name altered): “The little one was crying and did not want to sleep. I wanted to put him to bed, but Mr O. wouldn’t let me. He said he had to listen to him too.”
For minutes Erick O. allegedly pinched the toddler’s cheek and pushed him into the mattress. “He became more and more aggressive, said he was ready to go to jail,” Anna B. recalled. After futile attempts to calm the child, O. then allegedly tried to twist the child’s head: “I know how to do that, I’m doing that today. I don’t want such a shitty child,” he is said to have said.
The mother desperately held her son’s head. Then Erick O. snatched the baby from her. She recalled: “He was like an animal. He picked him up and threw him once across the room.” The baby was thrown against the door, then unconscious. “I wasn’t quick enough, unfortunately. I thought it was already dead,” the witness testified.
Because neighbours heard the mother’s cries for help and rang the bell, the child was saved at the last moment. Anna B.: “He was already standing in front of us with a knife. He said that the little boy was a part of him, I wasn’t allowed to have anything of his.”
Today, the boy is well again and, according to the mother, has suffered no consequential damage.
During the trial, it came out that Erick O. had apparently also abused the first of his three children. According to senior public prosecutor Jürgen Bundschuh, the accused, who has German citizenship, acted out of a “callous attitude that disregarded the suffering of others”. He had wanted to punish Anna B. because he felt her style of upbringing was too soft.
Judge Karsten Krebs will pronounce a verdict on August 2.
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