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Chemnitz (dpa / sn) - In the process of the violent death of a mother of five in Freiberg, social workers and carers of the children reported in court about their descriptions of the bloody act.
"Papa killed mom with the knife," one of the children said.
Sometimes they reenacted what happened on the evening of May 19 and showed where the father injured her mother.
Only one of the boys initially claimed that his mother had injured herself.
He later confided to his foster father that his father had threatened him and drummed up this version.
The social workers unanimously reported that the children were traumatized and were plagued by nightmares, for example.
The victim's husband is charged with manslaughter.
The prosecution accuses him of stabbing his wife at least seven times with a kitchen knife.
The woman was fatally injured.
In the trial before the Chemnitz Regional Court, the 39-year-old had asserted that he had never stabbed his wife.
Rather, in the course of a dispute in the apartment, the 33-year-old grabbed a knife and stabbed it in the stomach "as if from her senses".
The two spouses come from Afghanistan.
Contrary to what was initially planned, the defense waived the hearing of the children in court on Monday and withdrew a corresponding motion.
The children - the oldest is nine years old according to earlier statements - were spared such a statement.
The trial was expected to end on Monday.