A French mother was charged after police found her dead baby
in a freezer, where it had apparently laid for the past two years, prosecutors
said.
Police were at the home of a 27-year-old French woman on Saturday in the
northern French city of Lisbourg for an unrelated reason when her
boyfriend
told officers about the macabre secret in the freezer.
After finding the baby’s frozen corpse, the mother told officers that the
child had been born alive at home, but died a few days later for reasons that
remain unclear.
She hid the body of the newborn in
the freezer, where it remained for two
years. The circumstances of the baby’s death “are unclear but there is really no
evidence to suspect an intention to
kill the child,” Roy said.the mother was indicted on charges of causing death through lack of care. She is
currently under judicial supervision.
Many questions remain unanswered
about the baby, including its age and how
long it had lived for. Police believe the woman and her 29-year-old boyfriend
had “recently” got together, though they did not offer further detail.
The couple were living together in the home, which he owns, where the baby
was discovered. The boyfriend is apparently not the biological father of
the
child, yet he still faces charges for not reporting the existence of the dead
baby to police.
Prosecutors said he knew of the corpse in the freezer for a “couple weeks.”
So far the mother has given conflicting statements when explaining how the baby
ended up in the freezer.
“It’s a little difficult to get the facts from the mother, who is a little
bit lost ,” the prosecutor said. The case is also troubling because the couple
have a combined total four other children between them, who range in age from
four months to seven years old.
Police said the mother has two kids, the boyfriend has one and they have one
child in common. However, the mother’s children were with their father at the
time police found the body, so there will be no foster placement for them.
care.
This is not the only recent case of a French mother being charged over the
death of newborn babies found in a freezer. Indeed there have been a
number
of cases in recent years, which have been linked to extreme cases of “pregnancy
denial”. now the big question is what is, what should be done to the mother?