fifteen years of imprisonment required against the mother of the baby who died in the toilet

Just the day before, she appeared free and without any criminal record, before the Deux-Sèvres Assize Court. But this Thursday, November 14, 2024 in the morning, fifteen years of criminal imprisonment were required against this 47-year-old mother, tried for neglect of a minor followed by death.

At issue, her inaction after giving birth to a viable infant in the toilet bowl of her home in Argenton-l'Église, in Thouarsais, on the night of November 25, 2020. On the third day of her trial, four years later Later, the public prosecutor considered her guilty of the acts with which she was accused.

“Yes she didn’t have an easy life, underlined the general advocate, Marion Brulez, having regard to the economic and social precariousness of the accused, but many women experience difficult situations. How many women abandon their babies in the toilet bowl? »

“This baby could have survived”

During her requisition, the Advocate General listed “multiple abandonments” of the mother, who did not want this third child: her continued excessive consumption of alcohol and cigarettes during the pregnancy, her “absolute unpreparedness for birth”but above all « son inaction » at the time of the facts.

Born after eight months of pregnancy, “This baby could have survived if we had reached out to him. » Instead, “he will have spent the few minutes of his life drowning in the toilet bowl”charges the attorney general, before requesting fifteen years of criminal imprisonment against the mother.

The verdict is expected during the day of Thursday, November 14.