A couple who killed their severely disabled daughter in Hägglingen, northern Switzerland, have each been sentenced to eight years in prison. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Bremgarten District Court found the couple guilty of intentional homicide and attempted homicide. The verdicts are not yet final. On May 6, 2020, the now 32-year-old woman and the 34-year-old man drugged their three-year-old daughter with ecstasy and then suffocated her. Because he had procured the ecstasy, the man was also sentenced to a conditional fine for violating the Narcotics Act. He was also found guilty of attempted murder. In October 2019, the parents had already tried to kill the child once with an overdose of sleeping pills in the bottle. However, the child woke up again. The court ordered the two German citizens to be deported for ten years each. The child had suffered from severe cerebral impairment since birth. She would have needed intensive round-the-clock care ...
