A French woman who left her baby daughter to drown on a beach said Monday she had no other explanation but “witchcraft”. Fabienne Kabou, 39, went on trial for the murder of 15-month-old Adelaide which shocked the country in November 2013.
The French woman of Senegalese origin described her well-off childhood in Dakar before she moved to Paris to study philosophy and architecture and fell in love with a sculptor 30 years her senior, Michel Lafon.
“In 2011 I fell pregnant with Adelaide, she was born in August and I ended up killing her, 15 months after her birth,” she told the court in the northeastern town of Saint-Omer. Kabou travelled with her daughter from their home in Paris to the northern resort town of Berck-sur-Mer where she enquired about the local tides before heading to the beach.
She said goodbye to her sleeping daughter and placed her near the water on a wintry night. The baby’s lifeless body was discovered early the next morning by prawn fishermen.
“Witchcraft. That is my default explanation because I have no other,” she told the court. Kabou said she had spent some 40,000 euros ($45,000) consulting various “witchdoctors and healers” before carrying out the murder. “Nothing makes sense in this story.
What interest could I have in tormenting myself, lying, killing my daughter? I spoke of sorcery and I am not joking. Even a stupid person would not do what I did.” – ‘I had hallucinations’
Kabou’s lawyer Fabienne Roy-Nansion pushed her to explain why she thought evil forces were at work. “For many years I struggled to wake up in the morning, my feet were paralysed. I had hallucinations, like the walls which didn’t stop trembling,” said Kabou, who is charged with premeditated murder and faces life in prison.
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