Congolese student referred to prosecutor over newborn in Dakar
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Seneweb
A 26-year-old Congolese student was referred to the Dakar public prosecutor’s office after saying she had thrown her stillborn baby into a rubbish lorry in Ouest-Foire. A search extending to the Mbeubeuss landfill failed to find the body, according to Seneweb.
B. O., a 26-year-old Congolese student, has been referred to the Dakar public prosecutor’s office for disposing of a child and desecrating the body of a newborn after giving birth outside a hospital facility in Ouest-Foire. She reportedly said that her baby was stillborn and that she had thrown it into a rubbish-collection lorry, according to Seneweb.
Gendarmes from the Foire territorial brigade searched for the body with the young woman and a doctor, but the lorry had already emptied its load at the Mbeubeuss landfill. The newborn was not found, according to sources cited by Seneweb. B. O. had been placed in police custody after receiving medical care and informed of her right to a lawyer.
