Angers: A mother indicted after the discovery of a newborn in a trash room

Morbid discovery in Angers. A woman was indicted this Friday for murder of a 15-year-old minor and placed in pre-trial detention, two days after the discovery of the body of a newborn in a trash room, the prosecution announced.

On Wednesday afternoon, gardeners taking care of the maintenance of the green spaces of a residence in Angers had reported to the police station the discovery of “human organic matter”, which the forensic doctor will identify on site as a “human placenta”, explains the Angers prosecutor Sylvain Barbier Sainte Marie in a press release.

“The first elements of the autopsy reveal elements in favor of an infant possibly born at term and alive,” according to the press release. The mother, who has never been convicted by the courts, faces life imprisonment.