They heard screams that made them think of “a cyclist having fallen”. This Friday evening, around 7 p.m., while they were waiting for their mother to pick them up at the bus stop, in Montgiscard (Haute-Garonne), two teenagers aged 12 and 14 heard small cries without see the origin, first, report our colleagues from La Dépêche du Midi.
These noises that challenge them are reinforced. The college students then distinctly identify tears between two plane trees. Alerted, they then decide to undertake research, continues the regional daily. In a few moments, they will then discover a newborn, in the ditch, covered with leaves, “full of blood and surrounded by its umbilical cord”. Impressed and worried by their discovery, they alert their mother who was on the way.
When she joins them, in this town of 2,500 inhabitants, route de Nailloux, the mother of the teenagers alerts the emergency services and tries to warm the newborn against her, in her vehicle. The firefighters and the Smur teams will quickly take over and evacuate the child, probably born a few minutes ago, to the Purpan university hospital center in Toulouse. He would be, “miraculously”, in good health, specifies Actu, in spite of hypothermia.
The mother, a minor, would have made a pregnancy denial
“She was a girl, I think she had come to term because she was doing very well, tells La Dépêche du Midi, the mother of the teenagers, who uses her knowledge as a former nurse in a service of emergency room. It’s fate. What matters is the health of the baby. »
Dispatched to the scene, a gendarmerie patrol from Villefranche-de-Lauragais quickly goes up to a house located nearby in order to find the mother of the little girl. Their neighborhood investigation will take a decisive turn. A young woman, not yet of age, admits that she allegedly denied pregnancy and gave birth in her bathroom.
According to the first elements of the investigations, panicked, the very young mother would then have left the newborn in this ditch by the roadside, just on the other side of her home. In shock, she was then taken care of by the emergency services. She would be out of danger. For the sake of the investigation, she will be heard again by the soldiers, as well as her family, later.