2023-04-21 09:13:40
The parents of an eight-month-old baby who died of severe malnutrition in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray (Seine-Maritime) have been indicted and imprisoned, the Rouen prosecutor’s office said Thursday evening. On Friday April 14, the Rouen University Hospital informed the city prosecutor’s office of the death of an eight-month-old girl. “The emergency services warned by her parents because she did not wake up from her nap, in fact found her dead on their arrival at the family home” in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, said the public prosecutor. of Rouen Frederic Teillet.
An investigation into privatization of care that resulted in deathThe hospital’s report described “a state of severe malnutrition of the child” and also indicated that two older children, aged three years and 21 months, “were in a state of severe malnutrition and developmental delay”, according to the magistrate. The Rouen public prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation for deprivation of care resulting in death, for the youngest child, and deprivation of care compromising health, for the couple’s two eldest children. The prosecution also alerted the children’s judge, seized of the situation of the two eldest, who ordered their immediate placement.
The child died of severe malnutrition. The autopsy performed on Monday “confirmed that the child died of severe malnutrition and ruled out any traumatic cause,” according to the prosecutor. The father and mother, aged 27 and 25 respectively, were taken into custody on Tuesday and maintain that the children were regularly fed and that they were medically monitored, according to the same source.
Thursday, they were referred on instruction of the parquet floor which opened a judicial investigation against them for deprivation of care having led to the death, for the youngest child, and deprivation of care compromising the health, for the two eldest children of the couple. Judicial information is also open against X for non-assistance to people in danger “so that the investigations can continue on the possible deficiencies of reporting”, according to Mr. Teillet. The parents were indicted and placed in pre-trial detention, in accordance with the requisitions of the prosecution.
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