A horrific event took place in Fururfjörður in the Westfjords on August 6, 1913, when a newborn baby was horribly murdered.
The background story of the case is that a young woman named Kristjana Guðmundsdóttir (1891–1964) becomes pregnant by her stepfather, whose name was Árna Friðrik Jónsson (1880–1958).
Árni had married Kristjöna’s mother in 1908, but she was then a widow.
Árni and Kristjana then began an affair in 1912 and saw each other secretly throughout the year and only until 1913.
But everything changed when Kristjana got pregnant by her adoptive father or her stepfather.
hidden pregnancy
Kristjana managed to hide the pregnancy well and it seems that no one suspected anything; whether it’s the forbidden love affair or the fruit of their relationship.
Then Kristjana did not let Árna know that she was pregnant.
The child Kristjana carried under her belt was then born prematurely, in the public baths of Furufírður, where she lived.
She managed to give birth without waking up the other family members.
She later said she decided to kill the newborn almost immediately after birth. What she did.
However, it happened the morning after the birth that Kristjöna’s mother saw the newborn dead.
The white-haired man had been stabbed to death with scissors several times.
Naturally very upset
Kristjöna’s mother was understandably very upset and it seems that this event and her daughter’s love affair with her husband ruined her life – but there are few sources on her fate.
Kristjöna’s mother and Árna’s wife took the newborn and the newly killed baby and put it in a box and came out with the dead baby in the box.
Probably the same day, or the day after, the child’s mother, Kristjana, sent for a midwife. She helped Kristjöna and felt the baby.
The midwife noticed the puncture wounds immediately, as expected, and the mothers probably knew the matter had big consequences, which they seemed willing to face instead of trying to hide the body. of the child, and she informed the sheriff of the matter. horribly.
Subsequently, the sheriff investigated the child’s death; as a result, Kristjana was later charged. She confessed to the murder and was sentenced to three years of penal servitude, which today would seem like a pretty lenient sentence after such a horrific act of murdering her newborn baby with scissors.
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