Dead woman found after 8 days in hospital toilet

Maverick · Dec 30, 2008

8 days dead in the toilet -shock
The toilets in the hospital must be very clean -rolleyes

Dead woman found after 8 days in hospital toilet

Published: 30 Dec 08 14:13 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/society/20081230-16441.html
A young woman undergoing psychiatric treatment was found dead in a hospital toilet in Weimar early Tuesday morning. Missing since Dec. 22, she had been dead for days before a security guard found her.

A spokesperson for the Erfurt prosecutors’ office confirmed a report first aired on German radio that the woman, 20, had left the Sophien and Hufeland hospital on December 22 with a doctor’s permission. When she did not return, the hospital informed the police and hospital staff began searching the premises for the woman, without success.

The guard who found the woman told investigators he had noticed nothing out of the ordinary when he checked the toilet during a shift on Christmas Eve. But another guard later told police he had noticed the door to the lavatory in question was locked on that night, although he did not try to open it. The disabled toilet where the woman was found is located in a part of the facility that was not used over the Christmas holidays.

“It could well be that the woman had been in the toilet since the 25th,” Annette Schmitt, a spokesperson for the Erfurt prosecutors’ office, told the online edition of Die Welt newspaper.

So far, there is no evidence of external injuries, although Schmitt added that the condition of the body had deteriorated by the time of her discovery. An autopsy to try to determine the cause of death will be carried out on Tuesday.

Hospital officials said the woman had been undergoing treatment at the hospital for several weeks and that an intensive search was undertaken when she did not return from her approved outing. The hospital does not know when she returned, although she did purchase two bottles of alcohol on the day she left, which were found by her body. It is unclear how the woman was able to return to the facility unnoticed. Patients are supposed to be signed in and out.

“There is no 100 percent security when treating the mentally ill,” hospital director Hubertus Jaeger told Die Welt. “And thankfully, psychiatric patients these days aren’t kept under lock and key.”
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brown_bear · Dec 30, 2008

thas pretty bad.....i always thought or someone told me hospitals in europe are supposed to
be ubbbbber goood...>.<...or mebe its sweden...i cant remember teem...-unsure

AC0110 · Dec 30, 2008

Well, I don't think anyone want to use that washroom anytime soon...

Akki · Dec 30, 2008

^ well not sure if the patients would comprehend it... if it is one of those asylums..

ralphrepo · Dec 30, 2008

Maverick said: ↑

8 days dead in the toilet -shock
The toilets in the hospital must be very clean -rolleyes
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Like most hospitals, during the holiday season when patient census drops, entire floors are sometimes put on 'inactive' status. They may call such a section closed, but it really just means not in use. Of course, they really don't lock the unit down, so anyone can walk in or out. And since there is no reason to suspect that any of the floor facilities are being used, maintenance is not needed. Security may walk through the hall once a shift, but I sincerely doubt that they would do a room to room search. Hiding in a large facility is rather easy even if you're not determined to do so. :Talktohand:

Dead woman found after 8 days in hospital toilet

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