She strangled her daughter and staged it as a suicide: Her sentence has been determined
In the trial of a mother in Samsun who strangled her teacher daughter and staged it as a suicide, the prosecutor announced their opinion, requesting that the mother be sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment.
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In Samsun, aguidance counselorTuba Günaydın (34), whose brother was martyred in Hakkari in 2021, divorced her husband in 2022 due to psychological problems. Tuba Günaydın, who was appointed to Samsun İlkadım Sakarya Primary School under the quota for relatives of martyrs,wasexperiencingAfter sufferingfrom apartialparalysishealth condition, she began living with her mother, Sultan Günaydın (61).
On the night of the incident, Sultan Günaydcrying out to her neighbors that her daughter was lying motionless in the bathroom with her wrists cut. In the initial investigation, which focused on the suspicion of suicide,the murder was uncovered when the autopsy reportrevealed neck fractures consistent with strangulation. She confessed.
SHE CONFESSED
She was arrested by the court and sent to prison.A lawsuit was filed against the mother, Sultan Günaydın, at the Samsun 1st High Criminal Court. The elderly womanattendedthe second hearing of the casefrom the prison where she is being heldvia the Audio andVisual InformationSystem (SEGBİS).
TO STAGEA SUICIDE ICUTHER WRISTS
Sultan Günaydın, at the first hearing of the case, confessedconfessing to the crime, "My daughter attacked me in the bathroom, I pushed her, and she fell. She kept on attacking. I lost control while my hands were around her neck. My daughter had previously said she would commit suicide."was like that.I also cut her wrists to 'stage a suicide' after she died. When she hit me in the bathroom, my headand my shoulder hit the wall Ipushed her to protect myself, and after thatI don't rememberanything," she had said in her defense.
THE REQUESTED SENTENCE HAS BEEN DETERMINED
With the witnesses heard, the case file was completed and as there were no further matters to investigate, the trial prosecutorpresentedtheirfinalopinion, requesting that Sultan Günaydın for the crime ofkilling her own daughter, in accordance with articles 82/1-d-e-f and 53 of the Turkish Penal Code,she be sentenced toaggravated lifeimprisonment and requestedthat she be punished accordingly.
The hearing was adjourned to a later dateto allow the defendant's lawyertime to prepare a defense against the prosecutor's opinion.