Prosecutor Eliisa Sommer demanded a four-year prison term for Kairi Kuusemaa, who is accused of killing her newborn child and desecrating her body in Suure-Lähtru, in the trial that continued in the Pärnu County Court on Tuesday, writes Postimees.
The prosecutor demanded three years and nine months in prison for killing a newborn child and six months in prison for desecrating a corpse. As a compound punishment, Sommer requests Kuusemaa four years of actual imprisonment without the imposition of a suspended sentence. According to the prosecutor, March 9 of last year, when Kuusemaa was arrested in Morocco, should be counted as the beginning of the sentence.
Kairi Kuusemaa refused to testify at the court hearing on Tuesday. “I do not wish to testify today and at all. There is a good reason for this. What has been done to me today, this psychological trauma. I am not mentally capable of testifying,” said Kuusemaa.
Kairi Kuusemaa’s sister Karin also participated in the court session via video bridge, and said that she was exercising her legal right not to testify. “Since I gave three hours of testimony to the investigator in the spring, I exercise my right not to testify. In the meantime, nothing has changed,” he said.
According to the accusation, Kairi Kuusemaa caused the death of her newborn child last February. The woman is also charged with desecration of a corpse, which, according to the accusation, consisted in the fact that she 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.
Source: online.le.ee
