A 63-year-old woman has been standing before the Paris assize court since Monday, accused of shaking an eight-month-old child who died the next morning from numerous internal injuries.
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“If we had been on the lowest alert and had no trust, we would not have left our children with him,” assured the mother of the second child looked after by the defendant in the bar on Tuesday, describing a good relationship with his employee.
The nanny, recruited since January 2019 by the family and some neighbors who live in the same building, is accused of violence that resulted in the death of a minor under 15 without intending to.
She denies the events that occurred on May 22, 2019 at the victim’s parents’ home.
That day, the infant’s father left home around 9 a.m. and entrusted his son to the nanny.
At 11:58 a.m. emergency services received a call from the woman who claimed that the child had vomited and was now in a coma when she woke up from a nap.
When the medical examiner arrived at the scene, he “immediately thought of shaken baby syndrome,” given “the lack of visible physical trauma, the neurological disorders” the child was suffering from, and “the frequency of cardiac arrest.” lately.
A hypothesis confirmed by the forensic pathologists responsible for the autopsy, who favored the “compatibility” of the child’s injuries with shaken baby syndrome.
The nanny, for her part, claimed at previous hearings that the child had been behaving unusually, being particularly upset and crying on the day of the events, shifting blame onto the parents and a fall that had occurred under their control. Monitoring several days in advance.
A version refuted by the father but also by various experts who claimed that despite a fall, the reaction time between the fall and the child’s symptoms would have been too long.
The psychiatric experts further confirmed that the defendant did not suffer from a cognitive disorder at the time of the events that could have altered her behavior.
On the witness stand, the victim’s father portrayed a “dynamic” child who was “doing well” with supporting photos.
“I left the house for no reason that could justify me staying. I left peacefully,” he said.
Verdict is expected on Friday.