Pair Found Not Guilty
(N.Z P A. -Reuter—Copyright) FRANKFURT, Dec. 8.
A woman doctor and a mother were acquitted today of causing the death of a deformed three-year-old child by giving it lethal injections. According to evidence at the trial, Dr Mechthild Petersen and Helga Siderow, the child’s mother, drank large amounts of alcohol before the doctor injected an unknown substance into the child, which had hands and feet but no limbs. The court held that the connection between the death and the injection had not been conclusively proven. One expert said the boy, who had frequently suffered from feverish infections, could have died a natural death.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31548, 9 December 1967, Page 13
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