The prison sentence was handed down by the Wuppertal court, stressing the atrocity of the crime, and German courts rule out the possibility of releasing the convicts after fifteen years, which is the period often spent in prison for life sentences, according to the German news agency.
The mother killed her children: Melina, Leonie, Sophie, Timo and Luca, in September 2020.
Prosecutors stated that the mother first gave the children, ages 1 to 8, painkillers and then killed them by suffocating or drowning them.
The mother sent her sixth child, the firstborn, to stay with his grandmother before the murder. After the murder, she attempted suicide by throwing herself in front of a train at Düsseldorf station, but she did not die.
