Mother of slain autistic child charged with murder

The mother of the child found dead stabbed in Marseille was indicted for murder at the end of her police custody, during which she explained that she was overwhelmed by the “crises” of her autistic son, the prosecution announced on Monday.

The prosecution requested his placement in pre-trial detention, added the prosecutor of the Republic of Marseille, Dominique Laurens, in a press release Monday evening.

The autopsy carried out on the 11-year-old child confirmed wounds “by blunt object” in the skull, as well as “several stab wounds in the chest and throat”, detailed the prosecutor. The young boy, whose body was found on Saturday at the edge of the Huveaune by his father and his uncle, died following a hemorrhagic shock, according to this autopsy.

The mother “quickly recognized the facts”

After less than 24 hours at the Evêché, at the headquarters of the federal police marseillethe 39-year-old mother, separated from her husband and taking full-time care of her son, had “quickly recognized the facts”had explained Sunday evening the prosecutor of Marseilles.

Before the investigators, the alleged perpetrator of the murder explained that she first hit her son in her apartment on Friday, then took him to the edge of the river where she killed him with a kitchen knife. , leaving the body behind. She then reported his disappearance and even participated in the search.

To explain her gesture, the mother mentioned “the crises” from which her autistic son suffered, explaining “that she might no longer manage the situation”. “That day”, Friday, she “felt that it would never end”, according to the parquet. “She was very protective of this child, she fought” for him, assured theAFP one of the child’s mother’s sisters.