Veronika Molnar, Serial Baby-Killing Mom – Slovakia, 1930

FULL TEXT: Bratislava, Czechoslovakia – Under arrest for murder of her new-born baby Veronika Molnar, a working girl, confessed that in 1928 and 1929, as well as this summer, she had given birth to illegitimate children and had strangled each to escape the disgrace of being an unmarried mother. Bodies of the first two were sunk in a swamp and the third was buried in a garden.

[“Bratslava Girl Admits Killing of Three Children,” The Evening Times (Sayre, Pa.), Aug. 30, 1930, p. 5]

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FULL TEXT (translated from German): Pretzburg, July 9. – The 22-year-old worker Veronika Molnar from Bake was brought to the local court. Over the past three years, she has killed and buried three children she had given birth to.

[Das Kleine Blatt (Vienna, Austria), 10. Juli 1930, p. 6]

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FULL TEXT: Pretzburg, 9, Juli. – Die 22jährige Arbeiterin Veronika Molnar aus Bake wurde dem hiesigen Gericht eingeliefert. Sie hat im Laufe der letzen drei Jahre drei Kinder, die sie zur Welt gebracht hatte, getötet und die Reichen verscharrt.

[Das Kleine Blatt (Vienna, Austria), 10. Juli 1930, p. 6]

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For more cases of this type, see Serial Baby-Killer Moms.

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