Eighteen years of criminal imprisonment were required Thursday, January 20 before the Assize Court of Bobigny against a young schizophrenic woman accused of having been violent against her four-month-old son, who died in 2019 from "
shaken baby
"
syndrome.
“, denouncing “
regular violence
”.
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“
What is more serious than to violate your child to the point of killing him?
“Questioned the Advocate General during his requisitions. “
A mother does not have a right of life and death over her child
”, she continued, considering that the accused was “
perfectly aware of the harm she was doing to her son, but was starting again
”.
She then requested 18 years of criminal imprisonment, as well as a definitive ban on French territory, against the 29-year-old young woman.
Since Tuesday, Ouarda M., originally from Spain, has been appearing for "
violence resulting in death without intention of giving it to a minor and by ascending
".
On June 20, 2019, the emergency services intervened in a metro station in Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis) at the call of Ouarda M., who declared that his son fell down the stairs by slipping from the seat where he was not. was not attached.
Death 10 days later
Youssef, her four-month-old infant, is taken to Necker hospital in serious condition. He will die ten days later, a victim of "
shaken baby syndrome
". His body had a set of bruises and several lesions characteristic of this abuse, fatal in 10% of cases. According to witnesses, the child was covered with bruises on half of his face and skull and his limbs were frozen.
Ouarda M. admitted during the investigation to be at the origin of beatings on her child, whom she dated the day before the facts.
“
We are not on an isolated fact, we are on regular violence
”, retorted the general counsel.
Pierre Deval, lawyer for the accused, described the requisitions as "
misanthropic
".
"
You are asked to judge her as if she were endowed with reason
", but "
Ouarda did not take her medication
", he explained, pleading for the abolition of discernment.
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Ouarda M. did not wish to speak before the jury retired to deliberate.
According to a psychiatric expert interviewed the same morning, his discernment had been altered at the time of the events.
Diagnosed with schizophrenia as a teenager, she told the court of her chaotic life, marked by family abuse, rape as an adult by several men and forced prostitution.
In December 2018, eight months pregnant, she left Spain, for fear that social services would take her child away from her, and arrived in France, where she lived in precarious conditions in social hotels.
The verdict is expected Thursday at the end of the day.