A woman will stand trial next week at the Court of Santa Cruz de Tenerife accused of attempted murder for throwing her son into the sea three times from a pleasure boat with the intent to kill him.
The Prosecutor’s Office asks for this woman, with a Mali passport, 12 years of internment in a psychiatric center considering that at that time he was suffering from a psychotic break that completely affected his ability to reason and act.
The woman was on board a pleasure boat at seaoff the coast of Adeje, along with his underage son when at a given moment he placed himself in the bow and threw him into the water, as stated in the qualification document of the Public Ministry.
one of the passengers He rescued the child thinking that everything had been an accident and gave him back to the mother.
but soon after the defendant approached the stern and threw herself into the sea with the child in her armstrying this time to drown him by pressing his hands on the head and submerging him for a few seconds.
Thanks to the intervention of the captain and a passenger who jumped into the water, they managed with effort to snatch the son from his mother’s hands and get him on the boat.
Meanwhile, the woman did not stop shouting in English: “I don’t want to live, I don’t want my son to live”details the Prosecutor’s Office in its letter.
Shortly after, when the minor was being protected by several passengers, the mother grabbed him and tried again to jump into the water with him.
Once again, this murder attempt was prevented by several passengers on the ship, who had to hold her tight.
The fiscal Ministery It is considered proven that at that time the woman suffered a mental disorder that consisted of a psychotic episode with delusional ideas, hallucinations, altered judgment of reality and obsessive thoughts that completely affected her ability to reason and act.
For this reason, he opts for commit the defendant to a psychiatric facility instead of a prison.
