Mother 'killed baby with Stanley knife as she did not want it to interfere with her sex life'
By Allan Hall
05 May 2014 10:36 AM
Nadine Koenig, 20, from Regensburg in Bavaria, is accused of murdering her newborn son because he represented a responsibility she could not handle, judges heard at the start of her trial.
A GERMAN mother allegedly killed her baby by
slitting its throat just 30 minutes after she gave birth because she feared the child would interfere with her "sex life."
Nadine Koenig, 20, from in Bavaria, is accused of murdering her newborn son because he represented a responsibility she could not handle, judges heard at the start of her trial.
"It would interfere with her extensive sexual and social life," said prosecutor Ulrike Klein. She said she slit his throat with the carpetcutter."
"You could not bear the thought of your far-reaching sexual and social contacts being jeaopardised by this baby," she added.
"You smothered the baby then you slit its throat, causing the infant to bleed to death.
"The court heard how in February last year she was at her parent's home where she lived when she gave birth, and 30 minutes later
killed the baby so she could go out to a disco.
Her family claimed they did not know she was pregnant.
She hid the corpse of the baby beneath a walkway on the River Danube near to their home in a shopping basket.
After it was found it took murder squad detectives 12 days before they arrested butcher's shop saleswoman Koenig.
When police came to arrest her it was too much for her mother Kerstin,44.
She wrote a suicide note saying: "I know what my daughter did" before hurling herself beneath the wheels of a train.
Koenig waved at some of friends in court after the first day of the trial on Friday.
She faces life imprisonment if found guilty.