A baby is dropped off in front of a monastery. The next night, police found a woman’s severed hand. Now investigators know: It was the child of the woman who owned the hand. However, this case is still mysterious.
After two women’s severed hands were found on a highway in Sauerland, police are still searching in vain for their 32-year-old woman. However, her three-month-old baby survived. According to investigators’ reports, the child was found on Sunday in front of the Kröffelbach Coptic Orthodox monastery in the Waldsolms (between Koblenz and Frankfurt), as reported by the police and the prosecutor’s office.
According to information, he was not injured in the stroller. How it got there is the subject of current investigation. The baby is currently in official care, he said.
The baby is currently in the care of the authorities and the father is being sought
The hands found on the A45 on Monday evening could previously be linked to a 32-year-old woman with Eritrean citizenship, as announced by police in Hagen and the Siegen public prosecutor on Tuesday. There were no new findings – such as whether the mother was still alive and who left the child in front of the monastery – as the “Siegener Zeitung” reported, citing police.
The woman from Eritrea was registered in psychiatric hospital accommodation in Bonn with her three-month-old child. Based on dpa information from security forces, the police are looking for the child’s father.
Were the limbs thrown from the moving car?
Highway police discovered the body parts on Monday evening after receiving a report of an object on the road. The limbs were apparently thrown into a bag (from a moving car?) and then scattered across the road. A death squad has been formed.
To clarify the incident and carry out searches around the discovery location, initially the toll road towards Giessen was closed until Monday evening at around 07.00.
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