A childminder was indicted this Wednesday. She is suspected of the murder of a 22-month-old child in her care three months ago. According to the autopsy, the child died of asphyxiation.
A childminder was indicted for murder, three months after the death by asphyxiation of a 22-month-old child in her care in Chessy-les-Mines in the Rhône, we learned from judicial sources on Wednesday .
The woman, who was presented to an investigating judge on Friday, was placed in pre-trial detention, said the Lyon prosecutor’s office, 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.
Died by asphyxiation
The autopsy revealed that the child died of asphyxiation, said Villefranche-sur-Saône prosecutor Laetitia Francart.
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.
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