 While invoking crying in the newborn children as part of her work, the crying would cause her to enter a rage where she beat the children severely.The court doctors found Fikáčková to be sane, but prone to depression, hysteria and uncontrollable outbursts of anger.At her trial, Fikáčková was charged and convicted for only the two murders on 23 February 1960, as it was not possible to prove the older killings she claimed to have committed.