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Zwickau / Plauen (dpa / sn) - The baby, found dead a year ago in a neglected apartment in Plauen, lived after the birth.
The girl was fully developed and had "actively breathed", explained the forensic doctor Hans-Peter Kinzl with reference to examinations of the lung tissue at the district court of Zwickau.
There the child's mother is charged with manslaughter.
The 31-year-old reported in court on Tuesday about the birth in her apartment in January 2020. "The little one was blue, showed no reaction and did not scream," said the 31-year-old German sobbing.
She no longer remembered what exactly happened after the birth, she said.
Rescue workers found the body of the baby in a closet under laundry.
According to the indictment, the then drug-addicted woman was said to have given birth to the child alive at home on January 12, disconnected the cord and put it in the closet.
"The cause of death is a lack of oxygen," said forensic doctor Kinzl.
How it came about could not be exactly clarified according to his information.
The umbilical cord was said to have been cut smoothly - possibly with a knife or scissors.
The newborn was also cleaned after birth and repositioned in the meantime.
From death spots it can be seen that it must have been lying on its stomach for a while, it was found lying on its back.
Kinzl ruled out that the mother was suddenly surprised by the birth, or even experienced a sudden birth.
According to the descriptions, it was a normal birth with labor over several hours.
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The mother of two had previously stated that she was surprised by the sudden birth that Sunday while showering, while one of her children was playing next door.
Shortly before, she had been to the doctor because of a bad cold.
Suddenly she felt the child's head and then "carefully pulled it out," she described.
"I felt that I gave birth to the baby dead."
What happened after that, she no longer knows - it was only days later that she came to in the intensive care unit in the hospital.
"I'm not an ice-cold mother," protested the defendant.
But the presiding judge Klaus Hartmann expressed doubts about their version.
He referred to the content of several text messages she had sent the afternoon after the birth she described.
"That is not an expression of an exceptional situation that took place before," Hartmann emphasized.
It also didn't make sense to him why she had hidden the baby in the closet if it had been a stillbirth.
"It is very doubtful that we can believe that," he said.
However, the 31-year-old stayed with her portrayal after a period of reflection and consultation with her defender.
Three more days of negotiations are currently planned for the process - the next on February 22nd.
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