Swedish Child Care Providers Murdered 1,000 Children, Gutav Holmen & “Wife” - 1906

FULL TEXT: A. despatch from Stockholm says: Revelations concerning the National Children's Sanitorium have just been announced after, an investigation by the authorities. It appears that the alleged Sanitorium was simply a baby farm on an immense scale, and that wholesale murders of babies were committed. The authorities are trying to trace Gustav Holmen and the woman who passed as his wife. He posed as a minister and she as a trained nurse and specialist in children and their bringing up. They secured numerous contributions, and especially handsome amounts were subscribed to the building fund. It is calculated, that in the three years the institution had been running over a thousand babies have been received. Yet only thirteen babies are alive and well. These are the healthiest, fattest and prettiest of those received, and they were used as decoy, or show babies. They were shown to mothers and to all visitors and their pictures were sent out on the literature used.

[“A Thousand Babies Murdered - On Huge Baby Farm in Stockholm. Decoy Infants.” Syndicated, New Zealand Truth (Wellington, N.Z.), Dec. 22, 1906, p. 8]

►SEE also the 1913 Russian Kusnezowa case involving 1,000 child murders

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For more cases of “Baby Farmers,” professional child care providers who murdered children see The Forgotten Serial Killers.

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