The Vienna police arrested the baby's parents.
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After a dead baby was found in the trash at a hotel in Vienna-Simmering, the forensic autopsy clarified the infant's cause of death.
The baby was found dead in a garbage bag in the storage room of a hotel in Vienna-Simmering on Monday. On the instructions of the Vienna public prosecutor's office, a 21-year-old and a 25-year-old Austrian citizen were taken into custody in connection with the incident and were suspected of having murdered the newborn.
Baby was probably strangled
The autopsy revealed that the baby was still alive after birth and was likely strangled. The child was definitely “grabbed by the neck,” said a police spokesman when asked by APA. The boy's mother confessed to the “use of violence.” She is currently in custody with the child's father. A decision on whether to commit him to a correctional facility is currently pending, said the spokesman. Investigators currently consider the 21-year-old to be the main suspect. Because “she confessed to grabbing the child by the neck and strangling her,” said the spokesman. The autopsy also revealed that the boy was still alive after birth. A motive is currently still under investigation.
Unanswered questions about the role of the father after the discovery of the dead baby
The role of the father is also not yet clear. The 25-year-old had previously told the police that he knew nothing about his partner's pregnancy. The two Austrians checked into the hotel on Sunday for a vacation in the federal capital. On Monday, emergency services were finally called to the accommodation – initially because of “heavy bleeding in the woman's lower abdomen”, as the police reported. After treatment on site, she was finally taken to a hospital on Wiener Landstrasse.
Dead baby was found in Vienna hospital in November
There, doctors finally realized that the woman had just given birth. However, according to the police, the 21-year-old vehemently denied this. Hospital staff then contacted the hotel to search for a newborn. The baby was eventually found dead in a bag in the hostel's trash room. Further investigations into the exact circumstances of the child's killing are still ongoing, the spokesman said. It was only in November that a dead child was discovered in a garbage container on Kundratstrasse, not far from the Vienna Favoriten Clinic. The baby's mother then confessed to killing the newborn because of “family problems.” The baby had previously disappeared from the hospital's neonatal unit. A nurse noticed this and raised the alarm.
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