Neighbours insist daughter who 'buried babies she had with own dad' is innocent
Neighbours have insisted the young woman accused of murdering her newborn babies from an incestuous relationship with her dad is innocent.
Paulina Gierasik, 20, has been charged with two counts of murder after three newborn babies were found buried under her family home. She and her father, Piotr Gierasik, 54, were also charged with having an incestuous relationship. Locals in the village of Czerniki, northern Poland think Paulina should be treated compassionately as she was likely groomed into having sex with her widowed father. There are reports she was in a consensual relationship but neighbours believe she will have been pressured into it.
Piotr the moment after he was arrested for the heinous crime (Newsflash)Martyna Lewandowska-Tercjak who works as a waitress in the village of Stara Kiszewa where Paulina worked in a cake shop, told MailOnline: "I think she is a victim. I don't believe she should be in jail." Martyna called for her to get specialist psychiatric help and believes he "must" have put pressure on her to accept the relationship.
She offered her sympathy and said: "Everyone is saying in the Polish media that she is guilty of homicide, but she believed in her Dad. It was wrong, but she deserves sympathy." Adrienn Kotowicz also defended Paulina in a Facebook post, saying: "Must have been manipulated since childhood. Stockholm syndrome, mental disorder, trauma." Another woman Agnieszka Kroma added in the same thread: "Because maybe she was a victim and bullied?"
The relationship with Paulina was only exposed last week after her work colleagues became suspicious that she was covering up being pregnant. One colleague told social services that Paulina may have secretly given birth after she appeared visibly pregnant, despite trying to hide it by wearing baggy clothes.
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The inside of the basement where the corpses were allegedly found (Onet/Martyna Bielska)The three corpses were discovered in shallow graves and wrapped in plastic bags in the property's dingy basement amid fears there may be further bodies. According to the prosecution, the two murdered children came from a relationship between a father and daughter, who said she was in a relationship with him of her own free will. The third baby is from the father's relationship with his second daughter after he allegedly raped her.
Paulina's brother Jakub Gierasik has allegedly condemned his dad under the comments section of a Facebook post. He suggested that there was "no excuse" for his father's behaviour while making only a cryptic comment about his sister. As angry people bombarded his father's Facebook with comments, Jakub replied: "
Jakub spoke in comments on his father's Facebook page as angry people bombarded it with messages condemning his family. In one post he said: "People should stop judging the rest of the family by their looks. This is not a book that you can tell the whole story about by the cover. Those who don't know how it was, please don't write nonsense about the rest of the family"
Prosecutors have been given permission to hold the pair in custody for three months, pending an investigation which could lead to them both being jailed for life if convicted.
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