A mother was taken into custody on Monday, suspected of having killed her four-year-old son in Cugny (Aisne), we learned from the Saint-Quentin prosecutor's office, confirming information from L'Aisne New.
She is suspected of having killed him by strangulation.
According to the autopsy, the child died from asphyxiation.
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This woman was taken into custody Monday morning for "murder of a minor under the age of fifteen," the prosecution told AFP, specifying that she was unknown to justice.
The boy "was found dead when the father picked up his children" early Monday morning "to bring them to school".
"The investigation should be entrusted on Tuesday to the Laon prosecutor's office, which has criminal jurisdiction," said the prosecutor.
The child was to be placed with his father
"He's a very nice person," relates a close neighbor to the local newspaper.
A mother of three children: a big girl and two little boys.
"She had moved in with her companion," but, she's been alone for a little while, continues the neighbor.
We no longer saw his companion, I told myself that they had separated.
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According to information from L'Aisne Nouvelle, the mother is suffering from depression.
A few weeks before the tragedy, a magistrate would have ordered the placement of the four-year-old child with his father.