Investigation. Baby raped and killed in the Eure: parents imprisoned

A couple suspected of raping and killing their one-and-a-half-month-old daughter in the Eure region have been indicted and imprisoned.

The two suspects admitted the acts of violence but deny the sexual abuse.

The couple, a 36-year-old man and a 34-year-old woman, were taken into police custody on Sunday after the death of the infant who, “according to the first elements of the investigation, suffered physical and sexual violence” , according to Dominique Puechmaille, prosecutor of Evreux.

No history of violence

A judicial information was opened Tuesday. The man was indicted for incestuous rape resulting in death without intention of giving it and the woman for non-denunciation of a crime.

The facts took place in La Chapelle-Longueville, at the couple’s home, a caravan.

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The Samu found “bruises on the baby’s legs and a major tear in the anus”, according to a police source, who clarified that there was no history of violence on the other two children of the couple, aged 2 and 3.

The Rouen SRPJ and the Vernon police station were seized of the investigation. The two suspects were not known to the police.

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