2023-09-28 12:28:00
The Hainaut Assize Court pronounced its verdict on Thursday in the trial of Madissone Massy (29 years old) prosecuted for beating her son and the latter’s murder.
For the events of July 16, 2019, which took place in the family home in Wihéries (Dour), the jurors found her guilty of assault
For the facts of July 18, 2019 committed in Hornu’s hospital room, it is an assassination.
They justify their decision on the basis of several elements.
The presentation of the forensic doctors who declared that the cause of death was mechanical asphyxiation.
On July 15, the mother did searches on the Internet with the keywords suffocated baby or child suffocation.
On the day of the incident, she placed a blanket on little Enzo, while the temperature was scorching in July 2019. She made sure to ask for his meal tray in order to be alone in his room, while the nurses distributed the trays in other patients.
She also disconnected the electrodes placed on the child while he was sleeping, which explains why the alarm system did not activate.
Just before taking action, she walked through the corridors of the hospital with her son in her arms, in order to show that he was well and to give the excuse of sudden death.
Finally, the accused admitted to having put pressure on her son’s chest, which caused death.
The debate on the sentence will take place afterwards.
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