A forty-something man was tried Wednesday by the Bordeaux Criminal Court for non-assistance to person in danger after the death of his infant in 2018.
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It was, according to her, her greatest misfortune. Suffering from endometriosis, she thought she was unable to have children. This is what doctors told him. Yet the 1 er April 2018, Aurore, then aged 39, gave birth above the toilet bowl of her companion’s apartment in Saint-Macaire (Gironde). A little girl born in the long term and alive who will be discovered dead under a towel a few hours later and will be posthumously named Sofia.
Initially indicted for murder on a minor under the age of 15 and placed for eleven months in pre-trial detention, Aurore was tried on Wednesday October 5 by the Bordeaux Criminal Court for “non-assistance to person in danger”. Experts were unable to decide on the causes of death between mechanical asphyxiation, maternity-fetal infection or cocaine and amphetamines, consumed the day before during a festive evening and having crossed The placental barrier.
“I yelled when I saw the baby”
“It’s very confused and blurred,” says Aurore, all dressed in black, tightening a paper handkerchief in her right hand. The day before the facts, she had been taken from violent stomach pain. “It could only be my cyst with ovaries or my illness. I never thought that I was pregnant. I had gained a little weight but as often. I oscillate. It was not possible for me . “
She tells the rest: “And then I expelled my daughter. It is as if I were outside the scene. It was not real, I wanted it to remain a nightmare. She was white, All flask, strongholds. I was in a second state. I didn’t want to call help because I didn’t want us to see that I had taken drugs. “
The former companion of Aurore and father of the child made the macabre discovery in the bathroom. “When she returned from the evening, she twisted in pain, he recalls. This story of cyst came back all the time. So I was 1,000 leagues from that.”
“She stayed an hour in the toilet. I went to hit the door but she reassured me and repeated to me that it was not worth calling for help. She was weak when she returned to the living room. She told me that it was going to pass, I believed it. “He heard nothing. “The TV was on, I went out to smoke then buy something to eat.” He says he saw nothing of his pregnancy. “I yelled when I saw the baby, I was in shock. When I asked him what this baby was, she said to me: What baby?”
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