Bébé caché sous le lit : le procès poignant d’une lycéenne de 17 ans devant la Chambre criminelle
Tried before the Criminal Chamber, A. Diagne, a brilliant 17-year-old student in her second year of high school, is being prosecuted for hiding the lifeless body of her newborn under her bed.
For nine months, L'Observateur, which attended the hearing, points out, the teenager managed to conceal her pregnancy from her family. On June 29, 2024, while her parents were away from the family home in Marché Sam (Guédiawaye), she gave birth alone to a boy, "full-term, weighing between 2.4 and 2.7 kilograms and measuring 52 centimeters," a "perfectly formed baby." Panicked and suffering a severe hemorrhage after cutting the umbilical cord, she wrapped the infant in a cloth, slipped him under her bed, and then fainted. Taken to the hospital by her father, unaware of the situation, it was the midwife who revealed the birth the following day, leading to the discovery of the body.
In court, the same source continued, the accused maintained that at the time of the contractions, she "no longer felt the baby move." According to the newspaper of the Groupe Futurs Médias (GFM), the autopsy established that "the baby did indeed breathe after birth," but the forensic pathologist stated that he was "unable to establish the exact scientific cause of death," as no traces of violence, strangulation, or blows were found.
The prosecution, however, requested a life sentence, arguing that "she chose to commit the irreparable." The defense, firmly opposed to this request, insisted that "life imprisonment is not based on mere hypotheses" and pleaded for acquittal, citing reasonable doubt, for this teenager overwhelmed by distress. The Criminal Chamber adjourned the case for deliberation until September 1st, concludes the Gfm headline.
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