Swiss mom gets life in jail for smothering her twins
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January 30, 2013, Wednesday
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A SWISS court sentenced a mother to life in jail yesterday after she confessed to smothering her seven-year-old twins with a pillow and killing a third child - after denying the crimes for years.
The Horgen court, in the canton of Zurich, found the 39-year-old Swiss citizen of Austrian origin guilty of murdering the twins, a boy and a girl, and of manslaughter for the death of the other child, a baby boy, court spokeswoman Bea Rosenberger said.
The woman was handed a life term, which in Switzerland usually amounts to around 15 years behind bars, and ordered to undergo psychiatric therapy while in prison.
The woman, identified only as Bianca B. by Swiss media, had for years insisted she was not responsible for the twins' deaths in late 2007, but changed her story in a tearful confession during her trial last month.
She told the court she had murdered them both and also admitted to smothering her first child, a seven-month-old boy believed until then to have died from sudden infant death syndrome in 1999.
"I wanted him to be quiet for a while," she was quoted as saying by the ATS news agency.
The Horgen court, in the canton of Zurich, found the 39-year-old Swiss citizen of Austrian origin guilty of murdering the twins, a boy and a girl, and of manslaughter for the death of the other child, a baby boy, court spokeswoman Bea Rosenberger said.
The woman was handed a life term, which in Switzerland usually amounts to around 15 years behind bars, and ordered to undergo psychiatric therapy while in prison.
The woman, identified only as Bianca B. by Swiss media, had for years insisted she was not responsible for the twins' deaths in late 2007, but changed her story in a tearful confession during her trial last month.
She told the court she had murdered them both and also admitted to smothering her first child, a seven-month-old boy believed until then to have died from sudden infant death syndrome in 1999.
"I wanted him to be quiet for a while," she was quoted as saying by the ATS news agency.
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