| Couple on trial for murder of daughter
SCHWERIN, Germany: A German couple went on trial yesterday for the murder of their five-year-old daughter, who died last year of starvation after months of neglect in the family apartment.
The death last November of Lea-Sophie in the northern city of Schwerin prompted Chancellor Angela Merkel to appeal to Germans to check up on how their neighbours were treating their children.
The mother, 24, and father, 26, are accused of murder by omission and of abusing a person in care.
The mother declined to testify, but a statement from the father, read to the court by his lawyer, said: “I failed as a father." He said he had hoped the situation would come right by doing nothing.
Prosecutors say Lea-Sophie was unloved and already undernourished when the couple had a male baby in September 2007.
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Pause to smell the flowers but stay safe
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Africa: AGRA, Bio-Piracy And Food As Social Justice
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