Trial date set

Child (4) roped down from window: Mother charged

In the case of the girl who was allegedly roped down from the second floor by her mother using bed sheets, there is now a charge of endangering physical safety and child abduction.

The Vienna Public Prosecutor's Office has brought charges against a 38-year-old woman who allegedly abseiled her four-year-old daughter from her second-floor apartment in Vienna-Döbling on February 15 using knotted bed sheets in order to remove the girl from the City of Vienna's child and youth welfare services (MA 11).

Trial on March 11
The woman is accused of endangering physical safety (§ 89 StGB) and child abduction (§ 195 StGB). A trial date has already been set - the hearing is scheduled for March 11.

The 38-year-old has been in custody since the incident. A detention review date scheduled for Friday is obsolete in view of the main hearing that has already been scheduled. The accused will remain in custody until the trial date.