He was only two months old. On Saturday January 16, an infant died at the Reims University Hospital of intracranial lesions. His father had allegedly shaken him twice several days before.
It is the mother, who on Wednesday January 13, seeing her baby’s health deteriorating, took him to the hospital center. Unfortunately, the care provided did not allow the child to survive. The hospital reported it to the Châlons-en-Champagne prosecutor’s office, which opened an investigation. An autopsy was also performed. It detected various head lesions, leaving little doubt that the infant was shaken.
The parents, a young couple from Sparnacians, were taken into custody for 48 hours at the Epernay police station. In view of the criminal nature of the case, it was taken up by the Reims prosecutor’s office. A judicial investigation was opened for willful violence on a minor resulting in death without intention of giving it. ” The mother was exonerated, the father admitted having suddenly shaken the child, he felt overwhelmed twice
», Indicates the public prosecutor Matthieu Bourrette. ” Impulsive », The father would also have occasionally recognized a violent gesture towards his companion. Aged 26 and with no particular history, he was remanded in custody. He regretted the dramatic consequences of his gesture. He had been in a relationship since 2019.
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