German woman charged in drowning of her 5-year-old grandson while on US vacation

[Catty1]

I just don't get it. I just don't get people like this. They have to be insane...the actions are nothing but that.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/1...ndson_killed_1

German woman charged in drowning of her 5-year-old grandson while on US vacation

Tue Jan 5, 6:55 PM

By Bill Kaczor, The Associated Press

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - A 71-year-old German woman drowned her 5-year-old grandson in a bathtub while they were vacationing in Florida because she didn't want to see the boy grow up in a divorced home, authorities said Tuesday.



The grandmother, Marianne Bordt, tried to commit suicide after the drowning Monday by wading into the Gulf of Mexico wearing heavy clothes, authorities said.

Bordt, of Nufringen, Germany, was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Camden Hiers at a condominium on St. George Island, about 60 miles (96 kilometres) southwest of Tallahassee.

A public defender was appointed for Bordt, but no one answered at the office after business hours.

The boy's parents had joint custody of Camden after they divorced in 2006, but he lived mostly with his mother in an Atlanta suburb. His father, David Hiers, lives nearby and is on his way to Florida, according to his attorney.

"I don't think anybody ever knows that a grandparent could be capable of something like this," said Hiers' attorney J. Thomas Salata. "David Hiers is extremely distraught and overwhelmed with grief over this incident."

A phone message left at the mother's home, Karen Hiers, was not immediately returned. She is Bordt's daughter.

Bordt's husband, Heinz, told police he came back from shopping to find his wife returning from the beach sopping wet from the neck down, clad in a red jacket and long underwear.

"Mr. Bordt said that when he went into the house he saw his grandson partial(ly) submerged lying in the bathtub with his face in the water," according to a sworn statement by Franklin County Sheriff's Lt. Ronnie Segree wrote. "Mr. Bordt pulled him out of the bathtub, placing him on the living room floor."

His wife tried to run away from the two-story condominium building, but he forced her into the car and the couple drove to the local fire station, Segree wrote. The boy was dead when authorities arrived.

Marianne Bordt was being held without bond and has been placed under a suicide watch.

Her case will be reviewed by a grand jury, which must issue an indictment before she can be prosecuted for first-degree murder. The panel also has the option of reducing or rejecting the charge.

First-degree murder convictions in Florida are punishable by either death or life in prison without parole.

[Marigold2]

Nut job

[Catlady711]

His wife tried to run away from the two-story condominium building, but he forced her into the car and the couple drove to the local fire station, Segree wrote. The boy was dead when authorities arrived.

Ok so what I want to know is if the guy stopped his wife from leaving, and went to the trouble to force her into the car and drive to the fire station, why the heck didn't he take the boy with them, or call 911??? Idiots!

[Catty1]

This adds a bit more detail...looks like the grandfather took the boy out of the tub. It's not clear as to whether he was put in the car. It was likely too late then.

Is it possible they did not know about 911? Or possibly the grandfather was just freaked out and wanted to get everyone to the fire station? Hopefully there will be more details at the trial...

http://www.ajc.com/news/north-fulton...oy-267657.html

The man told Franklin County police that he left for the store around 2 p.m., and when he returned at 4:30 p.m., he found the front door open and his wife coming from the beach wearing a jacket and long underwear, according to the affidavit. His wife was wet from the neck down, Heinz Bordt told police.

Marianne Bordt allegedly told her husband she tried to kill herself in the ocean, police said. When he asked about the couple's grandson, Marianne Bordt told her husband she killed him because she didn't want the child to grow up in a "divorced home," the affidavit says.

Heinz Bordt told police he found his grandson partially submerged in the bathtub with his face in the water, and he pulled the child out, placing him on the living room floor, according to police.

As the Bordts exited the residence in order to drive to the local fire station, Marianne Bordt tried to run, forcing her husband to force her into the back seat behind the driver, according to the affidavit. Heinz Bordt drove to the fire station, but the little boy was dead.