The mother of the newborn found in the toilets of an Ouigo between Lille and Marseille was sentenced by the Assize Court of Saint-Omer to 18 years of criminal imprisonment. The court ruled this Wednesday, December 18, 2024 after three days of trial.
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The Pas-de-Calais assizes have ruled, the mother accused of having killed her baby in an Ouigo is sentenced to 18 years of criminal imprisonment and 4 years of socio-judicial monitoring, reveal our colleagues from France Bleu on site. She had already been incarcerated for three years for the same acts.
The 43-year-old mother has been appearing before the Pas-de-Calais Assize Court since December 16 for murder of a 15-year-old minor. The attorney general had requested in this trial 25 years of criminal imprisonment, the maximum sentenceaccompanied by 10 years of socio-judicial monitoring with a treatment order.
On September 13, 2021, the lifeless body of an infant was discovered in the toilet of a Ouigo Lille-Marseille train.
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The facts date back to September 13, 2021. Pregnant with an unwanted pregnancy, a woman gave birth alone in the toilet of a TGV between Lille and Marseille. The infant was found in the toilet during cleaning in one of the trains. We will have to wait a month to identify the baby’s mother, then arrested in Brebières, in the North.
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The child’s autopsy will reveal that he was born on the train.alive and viable‘”, declared the Marseille prosecutor’s office before the investigation was entrusted to the Béthune prosecutor’s office.
The mother, who admitted most of the facts after her custody, was indicted for murder of a 15-year-old child. The father, declaring that he knew nothing about the story, filed a civil suit.
