A 7-month-old baby and a father were found dead on Monday evening in the Portes-Ferrées district, in Limoges. The little girl died “possibly after (having suffered) violence” according to several sources. “There is no certainty on the cause of the death of the infant but the first findings point to a hypothesis of violence” inflicted on the child by his father who “would then have killed himself” by defenestration, specifies the prosecutor,
Baptiste Porcher.
The autopsy of the infant’s body will take place on Wednesday, according to the prosecutor who clarified that the mother was out at the time of the facts. According to testimonies, the man would have waited for the woman to return to defenestrate herself in front of her, around 7 p.m. The latter then ran into the apartment where she found the body of the lifeless baby.
A complaint for domestic violence
According to a police source, the mother had lodged a complaint for violence by her companion on her person but had said not to be worried for her daughter when she was alone with her father, assuring that he was not capable of preying on the child. The man and woman, who was hospitalized in shock, were in the process of separation but still lived together, according to the same source. An investigation to find the causes of death has been opened.