A 61-year-old was acquitted in the process of killing a baby more than 20 years ago.
"We have a statement-statement constellation", said the presiding judge Theodor Horstkötter on Wednesday in the Potsdam district court (21 Ks 5/18).
The 61-year-old was charged with giving birth to her viable child and then killing it "by stabbing it with a sharp object in the chest."
The prosecution saw the motive that she did not want to endanger her marriage.
The defendant had testified to have given birth to the baby in the bathtub.
She then passed out and then took the newborn dead out of the water.
The ex-husband said he saw stitches in the child's body when he found it in a bag in the apartment.
Investigators never found the dead baby.
According to Horstkötter, you don't have a child's corpse on which you could find traces of violence;
and no other direct witness either.
He said: "In case of doubt for the, in this case, the accused".
The verdict is not yet legally binding.