The theory of the accident defended by the defense did not convince the jurors. A man was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison by the Assize Court of Poitiers for violently killing his three-month-old son in April 2020.
On April 10, 2020, this separated father, then 37 years old, had kept this infant alone in his apartment in Poitiers. The child, between life and death when his mother had recovered him, had succumbed to his multiple injuries two days later at the CHRU of Tours.
The expert opinions rule out the theory of the accidental fall
The man, arrested shortly after and drunk at the time, denied ill-treatment, explaining that he fell with the baby in his arms. "My client entrusted to her father a smiling little boy wearing a bodysuit "I love my daddy" A few hours later, she found a disarticulated puppet in such a state that she was afraid to look at it," summarized at the hearing Me Marianne Penot, the mother's lawyer, accusing the father of "violent blows".
During the two days of debates, the defense maintained the thesis of the accidental fall with the infant in his arms, pointing to the "absence of material elements" of the two forensic expertise that rule out this hypothesis.
"Since the death of my son, I have the impression that life is no longer useful," the accused, a cook by training, told the court.
The jurors sentenced him to fifteen years' imprisonment, beyond the 14 years requested by the attorney general.
- Justice
- Assize Court
- Poitiers
- Vienna (Department)
- New Aquitaine
- Poitou-Charentes
- Infanticide