The autopsy of the body of a baby born in July revealed traces of violence, an investigation was opened and the parents were taken into custody.
A survey for “murder of a minor under 15” has been opened. This is the infant’s grandmother who had given the alert to Bray-Saint-Aignan, in the Loiret, on Monday August 15. She had called the emergency services and said she had discovered the one-month-old baby. “died in his crib”according to the press release from Loïc Abrial, the public prosecutor of Montargis, taken up by TF1 News.
The autopsy, performed by the medico-legal institute of Tours Wednesday, August 17, revealed “many fractures in the child’s ribs, some old, some very recent”, continued the prosecutor. The baby also had “bruises on the scalp” and the medical examiner “concluded death from asphyxiation”. “In view of these elements, there was no doubt that the baby had suffered violence from one or more people”specified Loïc Abrial.
An open investigation
From Wednesday, the father and mother of the little boy born in July were taken into custody. Aged 20 and 22, the parents have never been sentenced by the courts. A survey for “murder of a minor under 15” was opened by the Montargis prosecutor’s office, but the file was entrusted to the Orléans prosecutor. It is the research brigade of Gien and the gendarmerie brigade of Sully-sur-Loire which are in charge of the investigations, reports The Dispatch quoting AFP. In police custody, the infant’s parents did not admit to being the cause of their child’s death. The penalty for this crime is life imprisonment.