Slovenian woman cuts off her hand for insurance payout
Associated Press
September 11, 2020
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia -- A court in Slovenia on Friday sentenced a
22-year-old woman to two years in prison for deliberately cutting off
her hand with a circular saw to make a fraudulent insurance claim.
The
district court in Ljubljana said Julija Adlesic agreed with her
boyfriend to have her left hand severed above the wrist at their home in
the capital early in 2019. She was found guilty of attempted insurance
fraud.
About a year earlier, she signed contracts with five different
insurance companies, the court said. The woman stood to collect more
than 1 million euros, about half paid immediately and the rest in
regular monthly installments.
Her boyfriend was sentenced to three years in prison while his father received a one-year suspended sentence.
The
pair had taken her to the hospital, saying she had injured herself
while sawing branches. Authorities said they left the severed hand
behind rather than bringing it to the hospital to ensure the disability
was permanent. But police recovered and it was reattached.
Prosecutors
said that days before the incident, Adlesic's partner searched for
information on the internet about how artificial hands work. They
claimed that this was another proof that it was done deliberately.
During the trial, the woman claimed innocence, saying she would never have cut off her hand deliberately.
“No
one wants to be crippled,” she told the court. “My youth has been
destroyed. I lost my hand at the age of 20. Only I know how it
happened.”
The trial has attracted lots of public and media attention in the small Alpine state.
“We believe the sentences are fair and appropriate, and will serve their purpose,” judge Marjeta Dvornik said.
1 comment:
That is pretty hard-core.
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