South of Toulouse, the desperate had tried to murder her 5-year-old son
It is an extremely painful and disturbing family drama that the Court of Assizes of Haute-Garonne is about to judge.
A 45-year-old woman is charged with attempted infanticide. “We can’t live without you, the big one and your son say goodbye to you” : after sending this pithy text to his ex-companion Sylvie* was crashing into a tree in the car, with her 5-year-old son Teddy* in the passenger seat. The facts occurred in Huos, near Saint-Gaudens. The mother, in despair, had just learned that her companion and father of her child was leaving her to live with his secretary. The banal adultery has thus turned into tragedy.
She would have deactivated the little one’s airbag
On December 1, 2019, during the intervention of the firefighters and the gendarmes, a rescuer heard the mother of the family apologize. She, and especially the child, will get away with justice. Teddy’s vital prognosis was for a time committed: pulmonary contusions, liver fracture, disinsertion of the digestive tract, fracture of the vertebrae. He will wear a corset pendant for 83 days. But live.
On the road no signs of braking. His mother sped at almost 80 km/h straight into the obstacle. Worse, she will admit to having deactivated the airbag which can protect her child to whom she will buckle the seatbelt all the same, before promising him ” a long trip “.
She recognizes the facts
“It’s mine, I didn’t want to share it” she explains during the instruction. Beyond the gesture of this mother with an infanticidal will that a society cannot accept, the Court will have the heavy task of finding the right sentence for this neglected woman, with a clean criminal record. Described as “malleable, dependent and submissive” by the experts, she explained her murderous and self-destructive drive by “a state of intense anger” and admitted having “wanted to kill his son” after seeing his companion’s secretary. The accused is defended by Mes Ravyn Issa and Apollinaire Legros-Gimbert, the civil party will be represented by Mes Carbon de Sèze and Catherine Mounielou.
The trial of this Tarbaise court until the beginning of next week, she risks life imprisonment.