The frozen bodies of two newborn babies were discovered on Thursday.
The woman in whose home the bodies of two babies were discovered in a freezer has been indicted and placed in pre-trial detention, announced the public prosecutor of Carpentras to our colleagues from AFP.
She is being prosecuted for “murder of a minor” under the age of 15, said Avignon prosecutor Florence Galtier.
Questioned in the context of a preliminary investigation opened for “murder of a minor” under the age of 15, the suspect had in custody “evolutionary statements on the course of the facts”, indicated Friday followingnoon the prosecutor of Carpentras, Helene Mourges.
The case, which was initially in the hands of the Carpentras prosecutor’s office, was finally entrusted to the investigation center of the Avignon court, “given the criminal qualification of the facts”.
Parentage of children not yet established
Next step now: the results of the autopsies, scheduled for Monday at 10 a.m. at the forensic institute of the Nîmes hospital. Because for the moment impossible to specify their sex, impossible to say if they would be twins, and especially impossible to say if the imprisoned mother, following being arrested Thursday morning by the gendarmes of Mormoiron (Vaucluse), is indeed their mother.
The only certainty: these two babies found frozen in a family freezer in Bédoin are newborns, said the magistrate.
“Scientifically, we are waiting for the filiation, or not, of these children”, declared Hélène Mourges: “At this stage, there is no certainty and we must remain cautious until the technical investigations have been completed. carried out”, investigations which will make it possible to “determine the causes and circumstances of death”.
