LJUBLJANA, Slovenia. On Friday, a 22-year-old woman was sentenced to two years in prison for deliberately cutting off her hand with a circular saw in order to file a fraudulent insurance claim.
The District Court of Ljubljana said that Yulia Adlesic agreed with her boyfriend to have her left hand cut off above the wrist at their home in the capital at the beginning of 2019. She was convicted of attempted insurance fraud.
The court stated that she had signed contracts with five different insurance companies about a year earlier. The woman was to receive over 1 million euros, half of which was paid immediately, and the rest in regular monthly payments.
Her boyfriend was sentenced to three years in prison, and his father was sentenced to one year probation.
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The couple took her to the hospital, claiming that she injured herself while sawing branches. Authorities said they left the severed hand, rather than taking it to the hospital to make sure the disability was irreversible. But the police recovered and were reattached.
The prosecutor’s office said that a few days before the incident, Adlesik’s partner searched the Internet for information on how artificial hands work. They argued that this was further evidence that this was done on purpose.
During the trial, the woman declared her innocence, claiming that she would never knowingly cut off her hand.
“Nobody wants to be crippled,” she told the court. “My youth has been destroyed. I lost my arm when I was 20. Only I know how it happened. “
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The lawsuit attracted a lot of public and media attention in the small alpine state.
“We believe that the sentences are fair and appropriate, and they will serve their purpose,” said Judge Mareta Dvornik.
