German Prosecutors to Charge Mom With Murder of 5 Children

German Prosecutors to Charge Mom With Murder of 5 Children
Police passes candles and teddy bears at the entrance of a house where five dead children were found in Solingen, Germany, on Sept. 4, 2020. Martin Meissner/AP Photo
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BERLIN—German prosecutors said Friday they will charge a 27-year-old woman with murder after five of her young children were found dead at their home in the western city of Solingen.

Heribert Kaune-Gebhardt, a prosecutor in nearby Wuppertal, told reporters that postmortem examinations on the dead children showed signs of sedation and suffocation, but it was still unclear how exactly they had died.