The trial against the parents who are suspected of poisoning, locking up and abusing their then six-year-old daughter continues. On Tuesday, the girl’s teenage sister was heard. She says the girl was neither neglected nor abused.
At Lund District Court, the trial continued in the case of the vinegar-poisoned girl in Eslöv. During the week, the interrogation of the siblings will be played. On Tuesday, the questioning of one of the sisters was heard, at the request of both the prosecutor and the parents’ lawyers.
A few hours before the vinegar-poisoned girl is taken to the emergency room, the mother has sent a text message to the teenage sister in the family telling her to keep quiet. But the prosecutor has chosen not to use it.
– I’m not going to hear you about individual things because it will be taken out of context, and that won’t be good, says prosecutor Ingegerd Jigin.
Worried about the parents
The teenage girl whose interrogation was recorded today worries about her mother and stepfather who are in custody.
– When I spoke to them from social services, I understood it as them saying that my parents were bad. Because they had only brought up everything bad in court. They hadn’t said anything good, says the teenage sister.
In the hearings held last spring, the sister says the same as the parents, that the girl was not neglected or abused.
In one of the houses that the family lived in, the girl’s blood was found on the walls and a mattress that had been urinated on, but the sister does not know about it.
– I really do not know. I have no control over such things, says the sister during the trial, she says.
Facts: The prosecution against the parents
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The parents of a now seven-year-old girl have been charged on seven counts.
Extremely severe abuse: The parents are held responsible because the girl has ingested such a quantity of vinegar that she has suffered caustic damage to her esophagus and stomach and thus put her life in danger. They also allegedly exposed her to prolonged and severe cooling and thus put her in a life-threatening condition. When she entered the hospital in Lund on the night of Christmas Eve 2022, her body temperature was 33.9 degrees.
As they are custodians, the parents have guarantor responsibility for the girl and have therefore at least known that the girl was exposed to this, but failed to intervene.
Two counts of wrongful deprivation of liberty: The girl was allegedly kept strapped into a car seat, locked in a laundry room where the handle on the inside was removed, for several weeks in December 2022. The girl was also allegedly kept locked in much earlier. It must have happened periodically, between April 2020 and June 2022, in a room with pre-nailed windows and a gate for the door.
The parents are also charged with three different crimes of gross abuse against the girl, which include that she was subjected to starvation or at least severe malnutrition. The parents are also charged with gross breach of the peace.
The trial in Lund District Court continues until January 23.
Source: Prosecutor’s subpoena