A nanny was indicted and placed in pre-trial detention by the Saint-Étienne prosecutor’s office, for events that took place at the end of July, in L’Horme, in the Gier. A 6-month-old infant died of shaken baby syndrome on July 30.
The morning of the tragedy, the baby is fine, her mother even takes her little girl on video to send her to her husband, shortly before 9 o’clock. And then around 5 p.m. the nanny, who has spent the day with her, calls her husband because the baby is very ill. The emergency services hospitalize the child who dies 48 hours later.
Autopsy confirms shaken baby hypothesis
The symptoms the little girl was suffering from were those of shaken baby syndrome. This is what happens when an adult, often in denial about their actions, shakes an infant’s head back and forth. His brain then hits the walls of his skull. An autopsy confirms that this is what caused the baby’s death.
In the process, the parquet floor of Saint Etienne opens a investigation for intentional violence having led to death without intention to give it. The nanny is an approved childminder. She had been caring for this infant for only a few weeks. She was charged and remanded in custody.