Greenland’s High Court has sentenced a woman for committing violence against her foster children. The violence took place systematically over a period of about two years. Now the former foster mother has to go to the institution.
A woman is Friday has been convicted in Greenland’s High Court in an unusual case of violence.
The High Court finds it proven that the woman exposed two foster children to systematic violence.
The violence took place as part of the upbringing for a period of around two years, while the woman was a foster mother for the children in Maniitsoq. She and the children are related to each other.
The High Court has sentenced the woman to eight months in prison. Thus, the high court agreed with the Qeqqa Circuit Court, where the woman was sentenced for the same thing last year.
The violent acts consisted of blows with the hand and blows with objects. The children have also been pushed and their hair pulled.
The woman was convicted on the basis of witness statements, including from the children.
A further witness has told how, by chance, she witnessed the foster mother hit one of the children on the head.
The children were removed and placed elsewhere before the case began in the courts.
