{"id":293014,"date":"2023-03-02T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/03\/02\/belgian-mother-who-killed-her-5-children-euthanised-after-16-years\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T16:48:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T16:48:00","slug":"belgian-mother-who-killed-her-5-children-euthanised-after-16-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/03\/02\/belgian-mother-who-killed-her-5-children-euthanised-after-16-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgian Mother Who Killed Her 5 Children Euthanised After 16 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After killing her kids, Genevieve Lhermitte tried to commit suicide by stabbing herself but failed (File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A Belgian woman who murdered her five children in a case that shocked the country has been euthanised at her own request, 16 years to the day after their killing, her lawyer said Thursday.<\/p>\n

Genevieve Lhermitte slit the throats of her son and four daughters aged three to 14 with a kitchen knife at the family home in the town of Nivelles on February 28, 2007 while their father was away.<\/p>\n

She then tried to commit suicide by stabbing herself, but the attempt failed and she ended up calling the emergency services.<\/p>\n

Genevieve Lhermitte was sentenced to life in prison in 2008, before being moved to a psychiatric hospital in 2019.<\/p>\n

The 56-year-old’s lawyer Nicolas Cohen confirmed to AFP reports in local media that his client had died through euthanasia on the sixteenth anniversary of the killings on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Belgian law allows for people to chose to be euthanised if they are deemed to be suffering from “unbearable” psychological, and not just physical, suffering that cannot be healed.<\/p>\n

The person must be conscious of their decision and be able to express their wish in a reasoned and consistent manner.<\/p>\n

“It is this specific procedure that Mrs Lhermitte followed, with the various medical opinions having been collected,” her lawyer said.<\/p>\n

Psychologist Emilie Maroit told the RTL-TVI channel that Lhermitte likely chose to die on February 28 in a “symbolic gesture in respect for her children”.<\/p>\n

“It may also have been for her to finish what she started because basically she wanted to end her life when she killed them,” Emilie Maroit said.<\/p>\n

The quintuple murder in 2007 and the subsequent trial rocked Belgium.<\/p>\n

Lhermitte’s lawyers argued that their client, who had regularly seen a psychiatrist, was mentally disturbed and should not be sent to prison.<\/p>\n

But the jury found her guilty of premeditated murder and sentenced her to life in jail after hearing conflicting medical expertise.<\/p>\n

In 2010 Lhermitte filed a civil lawsuit demanding up to three million euros ($3.18 million) from a former psychiatrist alleging his “inaction” had failed to prevent the murders, but she ended up abandoning the legal battle after ten years without success.<\/p>\n

Last year 2,966 people died via euthanasia in Belgium, an increase of 10 percent compared to 2021, according to the authorities.<\/p>\n

Cancer remains the number one reason cited, but officials said for nearly three out of four requests the patient presented “several types of suffering, both physical and psychological”.<\/p>\n

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n

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