The alleged mother of the newborn found dead a week ago in a toilet at Bergerac station (Dordogne) has been indicted for “murder of a 15-year-old minor” and placed in pre-trial detention, announced the Périgueux prosecutor’s office this Friday
His 40-year-old companion, who accompanied him on the day of the events and presented by the young woman as the father of the child, was also indicted for not having prevented the crime and not having provided assistance to the victim. He was also remanded in custody.
According to the prosecution, the first conclusions of the autopsy carried out on Tuesday at the Thanatological Forensic Medicine Unit of the Bordeaux University Hospital show that the newborn, a boy, was “born alive”, “without signs of excessive prematurity”, and “breathed”.
“The intervention of a third party cannot be excluded”
This examination also made it possible to determine that the death was not due to a “traumatic cause” but to “acute cardiorespiratory failure” the origin of which remains unknown, the prosecution however noting “a context of submersion”. “The intervention of a third party cannot be excluded”, also specified the prosecutor of Bergerac, who divested herself in favor of the criminal pole of the parquet floor of Périgueux.
Friday, April 29, the lifeless body of the newborn was found by a cleaning lady in the toilet bowl for people with reduced mobility, where there were also blood and the placenta, said the deputy prosecutor of Bergerac Charles Charollois.