Afghan Man Tried to Poison 3-Year-Old Daughter to Avoid Child Support
An Afghan man was convicted for attempting to poison his 3-year-old daughter with aluminum phosphide to avoid child support, surviving only due to the child's vomiting expelling the lethal dose.
The justice system found the Afghan defendant guilty of attempting to poison his 3-year-old daughter. To carry out this act, he fabricated an improvised capsule containing a lethal dose of aluminum phosphide. According to the indictment, the man gave the poison to the child shortly before returning her to her mother, with the intention of avoiding child support payments.
At the same time, investigations revealed that the perpetrator had been searching online for weeks for methods of killing and types of poisons. The little girl quickly showed signs of illness but managed to expel the capsule by vomiting, a fact that proved life-saving.
The evidence that led to the conviction
The father’s DNA, found inside the capsule, was the irrefutable evidence in the case, as reported by Bild. Despite the defense’s claims that the mother staged the incident to trap him, the judge dismissed these allegations as unfounded.
According to the court’s judgment, the testimony of the child herself to her kindergarten teacher, in which she spontaneously described that her father had put something in her mouth, was deemed completely credible.
Nevertheless, the child’s survival was purely a matter of luck, as the amount of rodenticide corresponded exactly to a fatal dose for her age. The eight-year sentence relates to attempted homicide, causing dangerous bodily harm, and child abuse, although the verdict is not yet final.
