Overview

• The six-year-old is believed to have picked up five-day-old Zayneb-Cassandra from her crib and dropped her, causing a fatal traumatic brain injury
• Family members say hospital staff twice warned the boy’s mother about his disruptive behaviour before he roamed the neonatal unit unsupervised
• Lille’s Juvenile Police Service and local prosecutors opened a criminal investigation on July 16 to determine legal responsibility under France’s juvenile justice rules
• Jeanne-de-Flandre Children’s Hospital launched an internal administrative inquiry and imposed stricter access controls in its neonatal units
• Baby Zayneb-Cassandra’s parents have not filed formal complaints and are awaiting the inquiry results before pursuing accountability for security failures