Overview

• The five-month-old was never registered and was hidden from relatives and institutions, according to the prosecutor.
• The gendarmerie’s research brigade in Pointe-à-Pitre took charge after the body was discovered Monday in a Petit-Bourg residence.
• The 29-year-old mother has been indicted and placed in pretrial detention on a count of abandonment causing death.
• A friend initially held in custody disputes being entrusted with the infant and now holds the status of témoin assisté.
• The mother’s three other children have been placed with child-protection services, and an autopsy is scheduled to determine the cause and timing of death.