Mother gets 11 years in prison for killing son

A bitter custody battle led an Aalborg woman to strangle her four-year-old son. She was found guilty in an Aalborg court on Tuesday.

Published: 20 August 2014 08:52 CEST

Mother gets 11 years in prison for killing son

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On December 16th 2013, Aalborg mother Lise Balling strangled her four-year-old son Rasmus to death. On Tuesday, she was sentenced to 11 years in prison.

According to a report from BT, Balling was also stripped of the right to any inheritance or insurance payments connected to her son’s death.

The tabloid reports that prior to killing her son, Balling and her ex-husband were involved in a bitter custody battle over Rasmus. She allegedly killed her son after it was decided that the four-year-old boy would spend Christmas with his father in Frederiksberg.

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Danish government backs removing children from gang-connected families

The justice spokesperson with senior coalition partner the Social Democrats, Bjørn Brandenborg, told regional media TV2 Fyn that he wants authorities to have the power to remove children from their families in certain circumstances where the parents are gang members.

Brandenborg’s comments came on Monday, after Odense Municipality said it had spent 226 million kroner since 2009 on social services for eight specific families with gang connections.

“There is simply a need for us to give the authorities full backing and power to forcibly remove children early so we break the food chain and the children don’t become part of gang circles,” he said.

The measure will be voted on in parliament “within a few weeks”, he said.

An earlier agreement on anti-gang crime measures, which was announced by the government last November, includes provisions for measures of this nature, Brandenborg later confirmed to newswire Ritzau.

“Information [confirming] that close family members of a child or young person have been convicted for gang crime must be included as a significant and element in the municipality’s assessment” of whether an intervention is justified, the agreement states according to Ritzau.

The relevant part of November’s political agreement is expected to be voted on in parliament this month.

Last year, Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard told political media Altinget that family relations to a gang member could be a parameter used by authorities when assessing whether a child should be forcibly removed from parents.

In the May 2023 interview, Hummelgaard called the measure a “hard and far-reaching measure”.

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