After the discovery, in April, in Pas-de-Calais, of a dead infant, the mother of the victim and her companion were indicted with three other people. They have been imprisoned, the Béthune prosecution announced on Wednesday in a press release. At the end of their police custody, the mother and her spouse were indicted on counts of “murder and concealment of a corpse” and placed in pre-trial detention, said the prosecution.
On April 3, “a container containing the lifeless body of a newborn male” was found in a field in Huclier, he recalled. The investigations made it possible to identify the mother of the child, who was placed in police custody on May 3, as well as her companion and three other members of the family circle.
The child was “born viable”
According to the prosecution, the three other defendants were indicted on counts of “concealment of a corpse” and “non-denunciation of a crime”. One was placed in pre-trial detention and the other two under judicial control.
The autopsy revealed that the child was “born viable and presented with head trauma suggestive of multiple impacts”.