A 28-year-old mother who smothered
her baby to death with a copy of the
Koran told police she was trying to
save him from being possessed by the
devil, a court has heard. The five-month-old boy, who weighed
just nine kilograms, was found with
39 wounds on his body at his home in
Halmstad, Sweden, in July this year.
Most of his injuries were caused by
being crushed and battered by the Muslim holy book, prosecutors said.
‘The woman intentionally killed her
child. She smothered it to death and
the Koran was the murder weapon,’
prosecutor Anders Johansson told the
court. The 28-year-old mother, who admits
the charges, claimed she had suffered
weeks of hallucinations and visions
where devil’s horns were growing
from her son’s head. ‘I saw horns growing out of the
baby’s forehead and long vines on his
body. I saw an old man’s head on his
body. I wanted to save my baby, not
kill him,’ she told the court. Defence lawyer Goran Ruthberg
added: ‘My client was in a psychotic
state. She had no intention to kill and
considering how she was feeling, she
had no way of predicting what might
happen.’ The woman’s husband, who cried as
he listened to the prosecution’s
description of the horrific attack, has
forgiven her, according to
Expressen.se. ‘She was a good mother
and a good wife. It is a horrible thing, but it was an accident,’ he said. The couple, who are Muslims,
reportedly met on the internet and
married after a week. The father said
his wife was overjoyed at the birth of
their child but her mental health soon
deteriorated. A medical examination found that the
mother killed her child under the
influence of a serious mental disorder.
She cannot be sentenced to prison if
she is convicted of murder, according
to the newspaper. The case continues.
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May God help her eh innocent girl like that