2023-09-28 18:27:04
The jury of the Mons Assize Court has just finished its deliberations and sentenced Madissone Massy to 21 years in prison. She had been found guilty that afternoon of murder. Earlier in the day, the jury had followed the requisitions of the attorney general regarding the verdict on the guilt against this mother accused of having murdered her nine-month-old son in July 2019 in Hornu ( Boussu). The accused was also found guilty of willful assault and battery on the same child, with the aggravating circumstance of premeditation, on July 16, 2019, two days before her assassination.
The task of the jurors was not easy: the gap was considerable between the sentence requested by the attorney general: 28 years in prison (at least 21) and that requested by the defense through the voice of Me Preumont: 5 years prison sentence with suspended probation.
“For facts as serious as those which caused the death of a 9-month-old child, the pThe penalty for murder is life imprisonment.”, asserts François Demoulin, in a damning indictment. “I can hear that the accused loved her son. This is just one of its many contradictions. But this love cannot be a mitigating circumstance, he believes. Despite this love, the accused’s self-centeredness meant that she used her son as a thing to fulfill her unhealthy need for her husband.“.
Neither his young age nor his lack of maturity constitute, according to the Advocate General, a mitigating circumstance. No more than Munschhausen syndrome. He cites Wikipedia, and explains that this syndrome is a “factitious and chronic disorder that affects less than 0.5% of the population. It’s a tchronic ruble. It’s not a disease, it’s a way of functioning“, he punctuates. For him, the only possible mitigating circumstance is his life journey (editor’s note: the death of Eleana, his first daughter, who died at birth).”I can only admit that this tragedy constitutes an extenuating circumstance“.
The doors to life, to happiness, finally open… And clack!!! they close immediately
Opposite, Me Preumont, for the defense, fights like a lion. “After such an implacable indictment, I feel like I’m going to the scaffold“, begins the tenor of the bar. “I admit that upon hearing this, I wondered if I was defending a human being… Yes, I am defending a human being! “. The lawyer then reviewed the “traumatic events suffered by Ms. Massy. There are people who have been bathed on their behinds in a bath of sugar syrup since they were very young. Well, Mrs. Massy is quite the opposite.“. He then lists: the personality of his mother, the serious alcoholism of his father who was indifferent to his daughter and who died at the age of 45 because of his addiction, while she was a young girl; the first parental substitute, the godfather who quickly died of an illness. And in whom she had placed her hopes. And then there is the father-in-law, but alas, for both (Madissone Massy and himself), there was the mother! “, underlines the lawyer. “It’s no wonder, faced with all these elements falling on her, that she’s lonely!“. Then, referring to the arrival of her first baby, little Eleana, who died at birth: “Finally for her, everything can get better, the doors to life and happiness finally open… And clack!!! they close immediately. It will confuse her. She’s losing her way“.
Reminder of the facts of July 18, 2019
On the day of the tragedy, Madissone Massy found herself alone in the hospital room with her son, who felt unwell and found himself brain dead. For the public prosecutor and the civil parties, it is an assassination. For the defense, these are assaults and injuries resulting in death without intention to cause it. The jury decided, taking into account several elements: in particular the report of the forensic doctors and also the fact that she had done a search on the internet shortly before the facts with the words “suffocate baby”. Her confession also weighed heavily in the balance, even if she always claimed not to have “wanted what happened to Enzo”
The accused said she regretted her action
Thursday morning, the accused spoke for the last time. “I regret what I did to my son, I didn’t want him to die. I loved him and I still love him. I didn’t want him to die and I’ve suffered from it for four years. I miss him “she said before bursting into tears.
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