On Wednesday, the Tallinn District Court did not satisfy the request of the defense attorney of the woman accused of killing and desecrating a baby in Suure-Lähtrus in Lääne County, and left her in custody, writes Postimees.
The Pärnu County Court rejected the request of the woman’s lawyer to replace the arrest with electronic surveillance by order of July 26. On Wednesday, the Tallinn District Court left the county court’s ruling unchanged.
“Similar to the county court, the district court believes that the risk of avoiding the procedure is too great. The reason for this is the fact that, according to the courts, the accused already evaded the proceedings when he left Estonia,” said Maria Joost, spokeswoman for the Tallinn District Court.
At the beginning of September, the Lääne District Prosecutor’s Office charged a 31-year-old woman in Suure-Lähtru with killing her child and desecrating her corpse.
According to Eliisa Sommer, senior prosecutor of the Western District Prosecutor’s Office, the data collected in the criminal proceedings indicate that the 31-year-old woman, being aware of her pregnancy, independently gave birth to a live and full-term baby boy.
“According to the indictment, after giving birth, a 31-year-old woman caused the newborn’s death by her own actions, when she tore the umbilical cord from the placenta and closed the child’s airspace. In addition, according to the indictment, the 31-year-old woman inflicted superficial skin injuries on the child’s head, body, legs and hands,” said the senior prosecutor of Lääne.
“The prosecution accuses a 31-year-old woman of desecration of a corpse, which, according to the accusation, consisted in the fact that the woman did not bury the newborn’s body according to generally accepted customs, but took the naked body to the field, where it was found on the morning of February 5 by a dog from the household of the same village,” said the senior prosecutor. He added that the evidence established during the pre-trial proceedings indicates that the woman did not inform anyone about the child’s death.
The pre-trial investigation was conducted by the Western Prefecture.
Source: online.le.ee
