2023-06-07 14:51:28
She assures that the child died during a “cushion game” that went wrong: the trial of Sarah Caro, tried for the murder of her five-year-old son in 2020, opened on Wednesday in court Assizes of Finistère.
“I contest”, dropped the 29-year-old defendant, brown hair attached, to the president who questioned her on the subject of the prosecution.
The young woman, with a difficult speech, only recognized an involuntary gesture which might have led to the death of her son.
Although she has admitted to spanking, slapping and cold showering her son, she does not consider herself an “abusive mother”.
It is 10:38 a.m. on October 20, 2020 when she calls the emergency services to tell them that her son, L., is no longer breathing. The firefighters are unable to revive the child, lying in pajamas on a bed and whose temperature is abnormally low (less than 35°C).
The child died at 12:35 p.m. at Brest hospital.
The mother, dazed but not crying, then explains that she played a usual “cushion game” with her child, which consisted of sitting on a pillow placed on her head. Left in the kitchen when he was no longer moving, she would have realized, following the fact, that he was unconscious.
During the search, the police discovered four knives on the bedside table of the accused and two handwritten words on the refrigerator. “I can no longer face this life of nightmare, of anguish”, it is written there in particular.
Evoking a “desperate act”, the young woman, who claims to have considered suicide the day before the events, also asks to rest “in the same grave as her son”.
Depressed, holder of the RSA, the young woman was threatened with eviction in October 2020, with a rent debt of 7,000 euros. She was raising her son alone, who had not been recognized by his father. Her two-year-old daughter, whom she had had with another man, was with her father at the time of the incident.
His son had been the subject of several “worrying reports” because of repeated absences from school, which he had changed three times in two years.
His teacher had once noticed a lump with blood on his forehead: the child had indicated that his mother had slammed his head once morest a door.
A member of Jehovah’s Witnesses, claiming to be “very religious”, the accused faces life imprisonment.
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