Shocking findings

New evidence against the parents of the dead Raphael

Alexander P. and Manuela J. are in custody in the Josefstadt prison. Their three-month-old boy is dead.(Bild: BiKri)

A forensic medical report has placed a heavy burden on the parents of Raphael, who died in Vienna when he was only three months old. The boy's autopsy not only clearly established the cause of death, but also that the baby must have been exposed to massive violence at an earlier age.

When three-month-old Raphael was brought to the intensive care unit at Vienna General Hospital on February 3, the doctors were presented with a horrifying picture: the boy was no longer moving and - according to examinations - was already brain dead.