14-year-old stabbed pensioner at Vienna cemetery: trial reveals horrific details
A teenage girl killed a 64-year-old woman with 82 knife wounds at Baumgartner Cemetery. The trial in Vienna revealed shocking circumstances.
14-year-old stabbed pensioner at Vienna cemetery: trial reveals horrific details
On 25 February, a crime took place in Vienna that shocked the city. A 14-year-old girl attacked a 64-year-old woman she did not know at Baumgartner Cemetery with a knife and killed her. The subsequent trial at the regional court revealed alarming details, as falter reported.
The defendant, whose identity is protected, stabbed the victim 82 times according to a court expert. Most of the injuries were to the head and neck. The woman died at the scene. The girl photographed her blood-soaked victim and sent the image to acquaintances. When the judge asked why she had carried out so many stab wounds, the teenager responded emotionlessly that she had wanted the woman to bleed to death quickly.
The prosecution acknowledged that the act was undisputed. The focus of the proceedings was the question of criminal responsibility. The defendant, an Austrian citizen, has a troubled history. She experienced violence, was under the care of the City of Vienna and was living at the time of the offence in a supervised shared accommodation for adolescents with serious mental health issues.
Even before the act, the girl expressed to a psychiatrist and a friend that she felt an inner urge to kill people. She also reported having cannibalism fantasies. On social media, she consumed numerous violent videos and true-crime content. On the morning of the offence, she left the shared accommodation, bought sedatives and subsequently went to the cemetery. She had acquired the murder weapon a week earlier at a weapons shop.
In the courtroom, observers did not understand how such a young person could be capable of such a brutal act. One woman present said she had not gone to cemeteries alone since that day. Others questioned whether the care provided had failed. The psychiatric report was read with the public excluded.
Source: Google News AT — Crime (de)