German Father Receives Sentence For Injecting Mercury Into Daughter’s Foot

A German court sentenced a 30-year-old father to 13 years in prison for trying to kill his 1-year-old daughter by injecting mercury into her foot.

BERLIN –  A German court sentenced a 30-year-old father to 13 years in prison on Wednesday for trying to kill his 1-year-old daughter by injecting mercury into her foot. Due to her involvement in the crime, the man’s girlfriend received a 12-year prison sentence.

According to the German news agency DPA, the father, who was from the small town of Springe, which is close to Hannover, intended to exact revenge on the mother of the kid because she had abandoned him not long after the girl was born.

The indictment claims that the father and his new girlfriend intended to cause the toddler, especially great anguish even though they knew the poison would not immediately result in death.

The girl experienced a rash over her entire body and a serious infection in her foot following the injection. According to DPA, the discovery of the mercury in her body came about by accident during a third procedure connected to the poisoning.

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The father and his 34-year-old girlfriend first refuted the allegations in front of a Hannover court, but just before the trial came to a close, they acknowledged that they had jointly injected the mercury into the girl’s left foot and right ankle in July of last year, according to the DPA.

Where they got the liquid mercury is a mystery.

The verdict is appealable by the defendants. In compliance with German privacy law, the victim’s name and the identities of the defendants were withheld.