Overview
- The 25-year-old mother arrived at Châteaubriant hospital with her eight-month-old already dead, and gendarmes later found four siblings in a dilapidated, unsanitary home.
- Medical examinations noted lesions and bruises on the infant and an extreme physiological degradation among the other children, who are now placed with child welfare services.
- The mother and the father of the three youngest were placed under formal investigation for abandonment causing death and are being held in pre‑trial detention, with an investigating judge assigned.
- The Loire-Atlantique department confirms multiple June reports and says social workers faced repeated refusals of visits, leading it to seek judicial action for placement.
- The prosecutor, Antoine Leroy, says the juvenile judge issued an educational assistance order on September 18 and maintains that neither child welfare services nor the justice system malfunctioned.