Free birthers charged with negligent homicide in Germany

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https://www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/prozess-neu-ulm-alleingeburt-baby-tot-mutter-grossmutter-li.3399923 Translation from Google: Complications arose during the home birth; no midwife or doctors were present. Now, the 30-year-old mother and the child's 58-year-old grandmother face charges of negligent homicide. The infant died the following day in the hospital: oxygen deprivation, the prosecutor read from the indictment, suggesting that the boy's death could easily have been prevented if the mother and grandmother had called emergency services in time. If not immediately at the birth , at home without medical assistance, then at the latest when the infant was born limp, feet first, not breathing, and unresponsive to stimuli. Even then, however, the mother and grandmother waited, which, according to the prosecution, meant they waited too long for medical help during the unassisted home birth. The prosecutor has charged the two women, aged 30 and 58, with negligent homicide. The mother of the deceased infant listened impassively to the reading of the indictment, while the grandmother, a nurse, slumped slightly in her chair on the defendant's bench at the Neu-Ulm District Court. Why did the women want to attempt the birth alone at home, without a midwife or doctor – even though they apparently knew the child was in a dangerous breech position, making medical assistance all the more necessary? The two defendants refused to discuss these issues in public. Immediately after providing their personal details, the 30-year-old woman's lawyer requested that the media and spectators be excluded, at least during the defendants' testimony. He argued that the infant's death was a family tragedy and that the risk of further traumatizing his client was too great. The details of the home birth, he maintained, delved too deeply into the defendants' most intimate personal circumstances. The prosecutor and judge concurred with this argument, and requested that the doctors who ultimately p

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