Sentence reduced for single woman who let her baby die

The Criminal Chamber at the Guelmim Court of Appeal has decided to reduce the sentence to which a single mother was sentenced, prosecuted for having abandoned her daughter, a baby shewas left in a place out of sight, which would have led to his death“, announcement Al Akhbar this Monday, December 16.

According to the daily, this woman was initially sentenced to ten years in prison, before the charges against her were reclassified, which led to the lowering of this sentence to five years, of which she has already served. eight months in a cell in Bouizakarne prison.

According to the daily, this woman comes from one of the villages located near Sidi Ifni.

«She is descended from a blind father and a mother with special needs, while her brother is known to have mental disorders», écrit Al Akhbarwhich states that “this family lives mainly on the meager income it generates from raising a small herd».

It is these difficult living conditions, according to the daily, which would have left this woman in such a vulnerable situation.that a man would have taken advantage of it», without, specifies the daily, that he finds himself prosecuted in this affair.

The Guelmim public prosecutor’s office, in charge of this legal case, also indicates Al Akhbar, had decided not to charge this man, “after DNA tests revealed he was not the father [du bébé] died, contrary to what the main accused had claimed».

The daily explains that this affair became known last April, when a shepherd found an abandoned baby in the mountains near Sidi Ifni.

He then notified the local authorities and the Royal Gendarmerie services, who noted the facts, then opened an investigation, which initially made it possible to identify three women, likely to have given birth to this abandoned baby. .

The three women were therefore taken away, writes Al Akhbarat the Guelmim provincial hospital, in order to ensure the veracity of their testimony, the investigators having subsequently discovered that one of them had in the meantime ingested a toxic product, in all likelihood , attempt suicide.

This woman was treated by the medical team of this hospital, and was interviewed once she had recovered a week later, by the services of the Royal Gendarmerie.

Al Akhbar relates that this woman admitted the facts with which she was accused, and even retraced them in all their details, before identifying a man, resident of this same region, as being the presumed father of her child.

Summoned in turn, the individual refuted all of the facts that this woman accused him of, but was still presented before the prosecution, as was the defendant in this case.

In the end, the judge decided that only this one will be subject to legal proceedings, a DNA test having been unable to confirm the paternity of the defendant.