The Dutch Nathalie at the L. (43) Friday in Belgium sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for the murder of her daughter Dimfy (5). The victim was on November 16, 2012 in Zwevezele by a drug overdose killed. The prosecution had demanded 30 years.
Nathalie at the L. and Wesley Casselein met in 2006 in her café. Barely a year later, their daughter was born Dimfy. When the family in 2009 moved to Zwevezele, relationship problems arose. At L. could not bear the fact that her ex-boyfriend in November 2012 aanknoopte a relationship with another woman.
On the night of 15 on November 16, 2012 filed L. In her five-year-old daughter two Xanax pills and some pills on an anti-depressant increasing. In the morning she tried to hang herself. When L. has always maintained that by drink and drugs no longer remember from that night. The defense argued that the victim accidentally himself the fatal dose was taking medication.
Selfishness
In the motivation of the judgment referred to the court and the jury for the way in which the mother brought her daughter to life. This shows a great selfishness and a shocking indifference. ,, The accused brought immense suffering caused by the other family members, in the first place with the father of the victim. "
Well kept the court and the jury consider the criminal record of the case of L. and her social isolation and psychological problems. The absence of standards and values in her youth saw the court and jury as a mitigating circumstance. In addition, think of the court and the judges especially on the destructive and manipulative domination of her mother.
,, All this does not mean that the solution you have chosen is deeply reprehensible and your selfishness a trail of emotional destruction left behind, "said Chairman Willem de Pauw of the Court of Assizes to The L. ,, It is your duty to work it, and it still at least recover a bit towards Wesley and his family. Also with regard to your son P. who feel a lot of love for you. It's up to you to deserve that love, because at the moment you do not deserve that love. Knoop it well in your ears. "
Disappointed
The father of Dimfy was disappointed at the sentence. ,, Within 3.5 years, they may have been set free. I think that's not enough for a murder of a child of five. Answers about what exactly happened, we'll never get her anyway. I'm sure, "said Wesley Casselein.
,, 20 years is a sentence that I can live, "said lawyer Johan Platteau. ,, I am glad that takes into account the mitigating circumstances, which there certainly are. It is a punishment that provides perspective."
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