Kevin case

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The Kevin case describes a case in the Bremen district of Gröpelingen , in which a two-year-old boy was killed in 2006 by his drug-addicted foster father . The youth welfare office in Bremen had guardianship over the boy at the time of death .

course

Kevin K. was born on January 23, 2004 in the Bremen-Nord Clinic ; he was a premature baby and suffered from drug withdrawal . The child's foster father, Bernd K., had several previous convictions for assault. In August 2004, police arrested the drug addict mother and her baby. In the Professor Hess Children's Clinic it was found that the baby's bones were broken in several places; the child was underweight at 7.5 pounds. From November 24th to 29th, 2004, the child was in external placement in the Hermann-Hildebrandt-Haus.

Kevin's mother died of a ruptured spleen in November 2005 ; the man was investigated, but there was no evidence of third-party negligence. After the mother's death, the couple's family doctor advocated that the drug-addicted partner could keep the child.

Senator Karin Röpke was personally made aware of the Kevin case on January 18, 2006 by Mayor Jens Böhrnsen . Röpke spoke to the head of the youth welfare office, Jürgen Hartwig, about the case. This passed it on to the responsible department.

The official guardian who exercised the guardianship for Kevin, according to his own statements, had to look after an average of 240 cases.

The boy's body was found by the police on October 10, 2006 in the apartment's freezer. That day, Social Services officials tried to take Kevin into custody. Numerous bruises and 21 fractures were found on the body, including the right shin, the left thigh and the radius above the left wrist. The foster father gave the month of May as the time of death.

Kevin was buried in the Waller Friedhof in November 2006 .

Consequences

Karin Röpke resigned from her position as Senator for Labor, Women, Health, Youth and Social Affairs on October 11, 2006.

At the end of October 2006, Justice State Councilor Ulrich Mäurer published an investigation report on the "Kevin case", which revealed serious errors to the responsible offices.

In 2008 the perpetrator was sentenced to ten years in prison.

Due to the high number of cases of the clerk concerned, who also reported his overload, the number of cases for an official guardian was limited by law to 50 in 2011 ( Section 55 of Book VIII of the Social Code ).

Process observation

The Bremen artist Yolanda Feindura experienced the Kevin case from 2006 as a civilian trial observer and made the event the subject of two exhibitions in Bremen - 2008 in the Atelierhof, and in the Villa Ichon in 2013. In an interview with the press, Feindura commented publicly on this Procedure as well as the behavior of the accused. “It annoyed me that he did not speak,” she said, and accompanied the infanticide incident both in the parliamentary committee of inquiry of the Bremen citizenship and in the court case with over 800 drawings and around 100 text sheets, “because I could no longer stop to get an idea of ​​what I just wanted to hear, ”Feindura told RTL Nord TV.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Investigation report of the Bremen citizenship. 2006
  2. Jump up ↑ Case Kevin Chronicle of Avoidable Death. In: Spiegel, October 12, 2006
  3. ↑ a b Chronology In: Antageslicht.de
  4. ↑ a b Case Kevin: Report shows social welfare office massive errors. In: Spiegel, October 31, 2006
  5. ↑ Case Kevin: Bernd K's helpful family doctor. In: Stern, November 1, 2006
  6. ↑ Case Kevin: Youth Welfare Office wanted police protection. In: FAZ, October 16, 2006
  7. ↑ a b Case Kevin: Ten years ago his death shocked all of Germany. In: Weser-Kurier, October 10, 2016
  8. ↑ Youth Welfare Office repeatedly failed in the Kevin case. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 19, 2010
  9. ↑ a b Judgment in the Kevin case "You have to deal with this guilt". In: Spiegel, June 5, 2008
  10. ↑ Senate press office Bremen: Senator Karin Röpke declares resignation. Retrieved June 18, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Felix Brandhorst: Child protection and the public: The "Kevin case" as a sensation and political issue. Springer-Verlag, 2015 ( excerpt )
  12. ↑ Bundestag: The number of cases per employee should be limited to 50. 2011
  13. ↑ Christian Dohle: One judgment and many open questions. In: Spiegel online. Spiegel, June 5, 2008, accessed May 3, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Annabel Trautwein: Kevin drawings: A tragedy in lines. In: taz. taz, August 11, 2008, accessed May 3, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Karina Skwirblies: Portraits from the courtroom . Ed .: Weser Kurier. Bremen August 8, 2008.
  16. ↑ Julia Parohl: artist shows drawings from the process. RTL Nord, December 10, 2014, accessed on May 3, 2020 .