- Sascha and Maja Wensing, both 40 years old, were sentenced to life in prison today
- They abused their daughter Lea for days before leaving her to die in a basement
PARENTS who tortured their helpless three-year-old daughter before leaving her to choke on her own vomit while tied up in a basement have been sentenced to life in prison.
Sascha and Maja Wensing, both 40, were sentenced to life in prison after their daughter Lea’s body was found in the German Rhine-Herne canal, near their apartment in Dinslaken.
Her horrible experience took place last October when the parents decided to lock Lea in the basement of their apartment building.
They then embarked on a torture regimen that lasted six days.
Shocking messages between the couple revealed during court proceedings showed how the Wensings hated their daughter and plotted to kill her.
Sascha Wensing appears in the photo. The father dumped the body of her three-year-old daughter Lea into the Rhine-Herne Canal after she died in the basement of her apartment in Dinslaken, Germany, in October 2023.
Maja Wensing in the photo. Messages between the couple revealed during the court process showed how the Wensings hated her daughter and plotted to kill her.
‘That stupid b**** is taking up our time. She makes me angry, she ruined everything. I can’t stand her anymore,’ said a message from Maja.
The father responded: “I have recorded it again, the doll has bands on its legs and can’t move.” She’s a huge jerk.’
They went on to describe in detail how they had taped their daughter’s mouth shut, knowing that she would likely suffer a slow, painful, agonizing death as she had begun to choke on her own vomit.
“Clap his mouth and get out,” implored the mother.
Then Sascha replied: “We have symptoms of suffocation… I’m looking forward to tomorrow.”
After reading a series of deplorable messages between the evil parents, prosecutor Jill McCuller told the court: ‘The defendants hated their daughter and treated her inhumanely.
‘The victim suffered an overwhelming fear of death several times (during his ordeal). Her death was very traumatic: they found her with vomit in all the alveoli of her lungs.
Lea suffered an agonizing, slow and painful death, choking on her own vomit and with her mouth taped shut.
Sascha and Maja Wensing hide their faces during a court hearing
Once little Lea finally suffocated to death, her father threw her body into the canal.
He then went to the police himself, but according to the German press he reported the death as an accident.
Oberhausen emergency services were forced to send a diving team to recover Lea’s body, after which the autopsy revealed clear signs of torture and abuse, as well as vomiting that was clogging her lungs.
When handing down the sentence at the Duisburg regional court, the judge did not hold back in his condemnation of the evil parents.
“This act was especially terrible, so only the maximum penalty was considered.”
The perpetrators will now spend at least 25 years each behind bars.