A woman was sentenced in the Greenland High Court on Friday in an unusual violence case.
The High Court finds it proven that the woman subjected two foster children to systematic violence.
The violence occurred as part of her upbringing over a period of about two years, while the woman was a foster mother to the children in Maniitsoq. She and the children are related.
The High Court has sentenced the woman to eight months in prison. In this way, the High Court agreed with the Qeqqa District Court, where the woman was convicted of the same thing last year.
The violent acts consisted of blows with the hand and blows with objects. The children have also been pushed and their hair pulled.
The woman was convicted based on witness statements, including from the children.
Another witness told how she once witnessed the foster mother hitting one of the children in the head.
The children were removed and placed elsewhere before the case began in court.
