She had placed her two-year-old son in the passenger seat and deactivated the airbag before crashing into a tree at 77 km / h.
A 45-year-old laboratory worker was sentenced Monday by the Haute-Garonne Assize Court to ten years in prison for this failed suicide attempt which left them both between life and death and caused heavy consequences for the boy.
The accident took place on December 1, 2019 at the entrance to the small village of Huos, at the foot of the Pyrenees.
Left by her companion, the mother of the family had sent her an SMS just before her gesture: "We can't live without you, the fat one and your son say goodbye to you", said the message of this forties described by the experts as " depressed, introverted, sad”, devastated by the separation and who had suffered from “harassment because of her overweight”.
"Don't talk to us about crime!"
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"Don't talk to us about crime!"
She wanted to kill herself!
“, pleaded his lawyer Ravyn Issa.
"Her psychic construction was so special that she did not know how to realize that her son was a full person," added his colleague Apollinaire Legros-Gimbert.
Carbon de Sèze, the child's father's lawyer, considered for his part that the child "was the victim of his mother", recalling that the latter was not recognized as criminally irresponsible.
The ten-year sentence pronounced by the Court complies with the requisitions of the Advocate General.
In pre-trial detention for twenty-six months, the mother of the family was, according to her lawyer, "devastated" by the verdict.
She does not rule out appealing.
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