The family of the missing psychologist Maria From Jakobsen has taken the initiative for a fundraiser for the benefit of the woman’s two children.
Her husband – the pastor Thomas Gotthard – has been remanded in custody and charged with killing the 43-year-old woman, but the body has not been found. She disappeared in October from the family’s home in Frederikssund.
Several media outlets – including Ekstra Bladet – have written about the collection.
The collection is announced on a website, where it appears that the money will be used to cover expenses for legal assistance, psychological help, day care and everyday things such as clothes and shoes for the children.
This is because there is no income from their parents.
The children are eight and ten years old, respectively. Since their father’s arrest in November, they have been living with their grandparents, according to the website.
Maria From Jakobsen’s brother-in-law, Niels From, tells Ekstra Bladet that the family had received 825 contributions until Tuesday morning. The collection began on December 26th.
He does not say how much money the contributions total.
– This is not what we are focusing on right now, but we would like to say thank you for the contributions and thoughts that have come, says Niels From to Ekstra Bladet.
On the collection’s website, the family writes:
– The primary purpose of the collection is to cover costs that result from Maria’s disappearance and that are borne by Maria’s family.
In addition, the purpose of the collection is to raise money for a bounty, which is paid to the person who may lead the police to Maria From Jakobsen.
The family has promised a bounty of 10,000 kroner.
At first, it was apparently not a murder case.
Thus, at the end of October, the police issued a search warrant when Maria From Jakobsen, according to her husband, had left the couple’s home in a depressed state of mind and had disappeared.
But later the police suspected that a crime had taken place, and three weeks after Maria From Jakobsen’s disappearance, her husband was arrested, imprisoned and charged with murder.
Source: The Nordic Page