Célya, a 6-year-old girl, was found dead in a wood in Seine-Maritime on July 12. The main suspect, her stepfather, is still hospitalized by force according to doctors. His condition does not allow him to be heard by an investigating judge.
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The Rouen public prosecutor’s office indicates that Célya, 6 years old, abducted in Seine-Maritime on Friday July 12, died following a “significant cranial fracture caused by several blows with a blunt object”reports France Bleu Normandie on Friday.
The results of the autopsy carried out last Monday on the child’s body were communicated by the Rouen prosecutor’s office this Friday. The conclusions confirm the hypotheses put forward during the examination of the body discovered in a wood. The autopsy also confirms that the other injuries observed were carried out post-mortem: Célya was already dead when other blows were inflicted.
Célya, 6 years old, was kidnapped and killed in Saint-Martin de l’If, near Yvetot, in Seine-Maritime. The main suspect, her stepfather, a 42-year-old man, is still hospitalized by force according to doctors. His condition does not allow him to be heard by an investigating judge.
According to Célya’s mother, whose comments were reported by the Rouen public prosecutor, the stepfather “suffers from psychiatric disorders” and was also “regular and long-standing user of narcotics”. On Friday, he had consumed “cocaine several times a day”.
On Friday, July 12, the mother called the police around 6 p.m. to report her daughter missing. At that time, she suspected her partner of having abducted her. The kidnapping alert plan was triggered three hours later. The girl’s body was finally found in a wood three kilometers from home very early Saturday morning. The stepfather was then arrested around 6 a.m. in the same woods.
