The baby died of asphyxiation. A childminder in her forties was indicted for “murder”, three months after the death of a 22-month-old infant in her care in Chessy-les-Mines (Rhône), reported to AFP from judicial sources, this Wednesday, December 11.
Presented to an investigating judge last Friday, she was placed in pre-trial detention, the Lyon prosecutor’s office told AFP, confirming information from the newspaper Le Progrès.
On September 13, the child was found dead at the home of the childminder in Chessy-les-Mines, in Beaujolais, and the Villefranche-sur-Saône public prosecutor’s office, first seized of the case, opened an investigation to determine the causes of death.
The autopsy revealed that the child died of asphyxiation, Villefranche-sur-Saône prosecutor Laetitia Francart told AFP. The approval of the childminder, a forty-year-old, was suspended after the events. She had been practicing her profession for around fifteen years, reports Le Progrès.
