The father of a three-month-old infant was indicted and then incarcerated on November 8, 2024 in Tours. According to our information, the 28-year-old man is suspected of “violence against a 15-year-old minor resulting in permanent disability”.
A legal qualification based on facts which allegedly took place behind closed doors at the family, in Esvres-sur-Indre, near Tours. For reasons that remain to be determined, K., 3 months old, was rushed by Smur doctors to a hospital center at the beginning of the month. “It was the medical team, once the baby was taken care of, who found the injuries abnormally serious and raised the alarm”confides a judicial source.
discordant version
Habitual abuse, shaken baby syndrome or involuntary action? The question arises painfully in the Indre valley, at the time of publishing these lines, while the version given by the father of the family would not be considered coherent by the investigators with regard to the findings made at the Forensic Institute. .
Two incidents, the first of which occurred in September, are at the heart of the case. “For my client, it is an accident and absolutely not a voluntary act”simply replies Me Samuel Edoube-Mann, father's lawyer, joined by The New Republic SATURDAY.
According to a final assessment, the infant was still in a condition considered stable but critical, Friday November 15, 2024.
First debate in Orléans
An investigation is underway, entrusted to the gendarmes of the Montbazon brigade community. Asked about the case, the public prosecutor of Tours, Catherine Sorita-Minard, did not wish to communicate “at this stage” investigations.
One thing is certain: a first meeting is already looming in front of the Chamber of Instruction in Orléans (Loiret). Thursday November 21, 2024, the defendant, who denies the facts, will challenge the decision of the judge of freedoms and detention who ordered his incarceration.
If he were to be prosecuted one day before a criminal court, the accused would face up to twenty years of criminal imprisonment.
