US EditionFrench Court Jails Mother for 25 Years over Newborn Babies Found in Freezer
Aurelie S. was convicted of withholding care causing deaths in 2018 and 2019 and violence against her older daughters, sentenced to 25 years in Avignon court.
- A French court in Avignon sentenced Aurelie, a 44-year-old single mother, to 25 years in prison on Friday after finding her guilty of withholding care that led to the deaths of two newborns discovered in her family freezer.
- Throughout her trial, Aurelie denied intending to kill the infants, claiming one death resulted from a fall in Bedoin and the other from a denied pregnancy followed by a painful home birth.
- Forensic experts disputed her account, noting the first infant's skull injury did not correspond to a fall; the court also found Aurelie guilty of violence toward her three elder daughters, aged 13 to 23.
- Regarding the second case, Aurelie said she passed out after a painful home birth and panicked when her eldest daughter called, placing the infant in a laundry basket, then "with her sister" in the freezer.
- This case follows a series of similar incidents in France; a 2015 conviction resulted in nine years imprisonment, and a 2018 case involved eight years for drowning five newborns whose bodies were frozen.
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Freezer babies: French mother gets 25 years’ jail for death of her two newborns in case echoing past infant killings in France
AVIGNON (France), March 28 — A French court on Friday jailed a 44-year-old woman for 25 years over the deaths of two of her newborn babies, who police found in the family freezer.Throughout her trial in the southern city of Avignon, Aurelie S., a single mother, had denied intending to kill the babies.But the court found her guilty of withholding care, leading to their deaths in 2018 and 2019, as well as being violent towards her three elder daug…
The story is cold in the back. Judged in front of Vaucluse's court in Avignon since 19 March, Aurélie Samperez was subject to life imprisonment for the murder of two infants found in the family freezer in 2022. The court finally did not accept this qualification, sentencing the accused to 25 years in prison for neglect of care resulting in death, as well as for violence committed against her three daughters.The macabre discovery of a teenagerL. …
She was facing life imprisonment, but Aurélie S. has finally been sentenced to 25 years for letting two of her babies die and freezing them at home. The Criminal Court of Vaucluse (France) has issued this verdict on Friday, which this housewife has heard impassive in the courtroom with her arms crossed. With doubts about the intention of killing the two minors, the court has found the woman guilty of two negligences causing the death of two babi…
The president of the court blamed him for his "little dempathy" and "too little questioning after three years of detention," regretting that this trial brought "very few answers".
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