A young woman from Rennes, France, who got rid of her child who she left in a trash can has been charged with “attempted murder.”
The 17-year-old mother, who had no previous criminal record, confessed to the judge that she had put the baby in a plastic bag in a garbage container after the birth on Friday, the newspaper Ouest-France reported.
The suspect “admitted that after giving birth she put the baby in a plastic bag, then in a garbage bag, which she then threw into a dumpster in her neighborhood,” the judge said, citing the local newspaper.
The young woman, a student whose identity was not revealed, had her maternity confirmed through a DNA test and was remanded in custody, while the 24-year-old father, who was there during the pregnancy, was released “without prosecution”.
According to French media, the baby, who was born at term and weighed 3.37 kg and was 50 centimeters tall, was diagnosed with a skull fracture, the cause of which is unknown. et Vilaine.