Mother, Doctor Charged
(N.Z P A.-Reuter—Copyright) FRANKFURT (West Germany), Dec. 3.
A woman doctor told a court at Frankfurt she did not intend to kill a three-year-old deformed child when she gave it, an injection four years ago.
Dr Mechthild Petersen, aged 47, and the child’s 36-year-old mother, Helga Siderow, are on trial here charged with manslaughter of the child, who had hands and feet but no limbs. ? The indictment states that Dr Petersen gave the child a lethal injection at the instigation of Mrs Siderow, who wanted to protect it from an unhappy life.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31543, 4 December 1967, Page 13
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