Did he shake his three-month-old baby in the spring of 2020? A Roannais before Justice

It all started with a report from the Saint-Étienne hospital center, where a three-month-old infant, a very premature baby born in February 2020, was admitted in serious condition in June of the same year. Faced with alarming symptoms such as vomiting, among others, a battery of tests is then carried out.

I never shook my son. I know how to maintain my self-control.

These highlight subdural hematomas (splashes of blood in the skull), a retinal hemorrhage, two broken ribs… All symptoms suggestive of shaken baby syndrome, according to doctors. Which also detect a fracture of the femur, undoubtedly linked to another traumatic episode.

“I confessed out of exhaustion”

The two parents of this infant, then living in Bully, were placed in police custody. After 24 hours in the gendarmerie premises and several hearings, the father “broke down” and admitted that, at the end of his nerves in the face of his baby who was constantly crying, he shook him back and forth about ten times. A version that he maintains for a long time, before turning around: “I confessed out of exhaustion and under threat. I never shook my son. I know how to maintain my self-control, I have always been a loving and caring father,” he said in court this Tuesday, December 17.

Who shook this young child, if not him? ” I don’t know. I am certain that the doctors were wrong in their diagnosis and that his symptoms do not correspond to shaken baby syndrome,” says the forty-year-old, completely distracted, at the stand.

Let’s remember that he will grow and develop with what we tell him and what the social services tell them.

Words that are difficult to hear for the child’s lawyer, Me André. “He is contesting everything, the care of his child, the diagnoses… But let’s remember that he will grow and build himself with what we tell him and what the social services tell him. » The lawyers of the older brother of the siblings, aged 7, and of the mother, Me Dumas-Montadre and Me Favrichon, will both have emphasized the damage caused by these sad events.

The withdrawal of parental authority demanded

On the public prosecutor’s side, we put forward “a total denial of all the elements which prove the shaking”, notes “a total absence of questioning” and doubts “of the capacity of the accused to exercise his parental authority”. This is why his representative, Marie Nicourt, requires 30 months in prison, including 10 months in prison, “necessary for him to understand the seriousness of his action”.

In defense, Me Fisli regrets “the lack of investigations which could have allowed the truth to be revealed. The doubt persists” and therefore calls on the magistrates to acquit his client.

The criminal court will deliver its deliberations on Thursday, December 26.

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