Overview
- The mother convicted in Siegen has filed a legal appeal to the Federal Court of Justice after receiving a five-year prison term.
- The court found she hid her daughter for about seven years in the grandparents’ home in Attendorn and left the child with severe psychological, physical, and social-emotional harm.
- Judges convicted her of maltreatment of a person in care, false imprisonment, and violating parental duties.
- The grandmother received a two-year sentence suspended on probation, and the grandfather got 15 months on probation as an accomplice.
- The defense says a suspended sentence would let the mother begin therapy more easily.