This 37-year-old former researcher, holder of a doctorate in science, faced life imprisonment.
Published on 13/12/2024 23:02
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She showed no reaction to the verdict. Ingride Jesus Van Der Kellen, 37, was sentenced to 30 years in prison with a 15-year safety period for killing her two young children in 2022, Friday December 13 by the Meurthe-et-Assize Court. Moselle. This former researcher, holder of a doctorate in science, faced life imprisonment. She was convicted of murder of minors under the age of 15 and violence against a spouse.
On February 15, 2022, the accused was arrested while driving by the gendarmes, when she had just smothered her two children aged nine months and two and a half years, picked up at midday from daycare. Previously, she had tried to knock out her partner with a hammer, after he had announced his intention to leave the family home with the children due to the mother's alcoholism.
The accused burst into tears regularly throughout the proceedings. She was unable to complete her interrogation on Wednesday: caregivers had to intervene and administer a sedative. Devastated, she repeated during the trial that she wanted to commit suicide, that she did not understand how she could have committed such actions and suffocated her two children aged two and a half and nine months. Very psychologically fragile, she has already attempted suicide five times since the start of her incarceration two years ago.
