Children drowned in the pool: the mother’s motive is still unclear

After the killing of two children in Absdorf (Tulln district), the St. Pölten public prosecutor’s office submitted an application for the 36-year-old mother to be temporarily accommodated in a forensic therapeutic center. According to authority spokesman Leopold Bien, a psychiatric report should also be obtained later. The victim confessed to killing the girls on Monday. According to the police, the trigger is an exceptional psychological situation.

According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, provisional placement can be considered in such a case if there are “sufficient reasons” to assume that the prerequisites for general placement in a forensic therapeutic center under Section 21 of the Criminal Code are met. An imposition of pre-trial detention is then not legally permissible. A decision on the provisional accommodation of the 36-year-old could be made on (tomorrow) Wednesday.

Video: Werner Fetz (ORF) speaks about the investigation of the two dead children in Absdorf.

The appointment of a psychiatric expert has not yet been applied for on Tuesday, but is considered likely. A corresponding report “will, I think, be obtained as part of the investigation,” Bien predicted. There were no statements from the spokesman for the prosecution about the possible motive of the 36-year-old.

According to Bien, the results of the autopsies ordered by the public prosecutor’s office were not yet available. According to the first investigation results, the children were killed at the age of seven months and seven years by submerging in the water.

Murder is suspected. The person concerned is said to have driven the car into a tree with suicidal intent on Monday, in which she was injured. The Austrian citizen was therefore taken to the hospital, but also arrested.

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