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On Wednesday, the Egyptian judiciary decided to continue detention for 15 days for the parents of the child who died of hunger in Toukh.
The Public Ministry had previously decided to detain the spouses for 4 days pending an investigation, accusing them of deliberately killing their three-month-old young son, leaving him unattended until his death.
The Prosecutor’s Office of the Toukh Center in Qalubia had received a report from the boy’s father after discovering the death of his son after returning from work to his residence. The prosecutor went to inspect the baby’s body and found it in a state of fossil decomposition, and no visible injuries were noted. The coroner was assigned to carry out an autopsy to clarify the baby’s cause of death and the extent of the criminal suspicion.
The couple
At the residence of the boy’s parents, the prosecutor examined the room in which the body was found. And the effects of decomposition by throwing it on the bed in which the child was placed, while no signs of violence were found in the house.
From the discussion of the boy’s parents it became clear that they left him alone after a dispute between them and left the family home without caring for the boy. The prosecutor arrested the couple and questioned them about what was attributed to them, and they denied responsibility for the death.
The defendant said that his wife left their home without the infant, accompanied by a three-year-old brother, after what happened between them. Then he hurried out of the house to catch up on his work, leaving the boy alone, thinking his mother would come home.
The father did not inform his wife or any of his relatives living on the same property about what happened. He spent nine days at his workplace without being satisfied with the condition of his infant, until he called his wife during his return home on October 26 to find out about her and the infant, and learned from her that she left him. for him to take care of him, so he returned to the residence where he found his dead son.
Family house
The husband revealed that he and his wife, during their disputes, used to leave their two children uncared for, adding that previously the defendant had left the baby alone.
For her part, the defendant said that her husband forcibly took the baby from her when she left the house, after their dispute. She added that she was only satisfied with her condition during the nine days until her death through a neighbor who asked her to send her daughter to ask about the baby.
The mother confirmed that she and her husband were always in conflict, and that she used to leave the conjugal home, her young son and her brother, sometimes by her will or by force at other times.
The defendant revealed that her phone automatically records the conversations that take place on it. Then the Public Ministry heard a conversation between the mother and her husband in which he told her that he was going back home, and he asked about the infant and she replied that she left him to take care of him and did not know anything about him, then they turned to other matters in their conversation, not indifferent to the infant’s condition.
The prosecution asked the relatives of the accused, and they all confirmed their habit of leaving their homes, and their children in them, following the differences between them. The defendant’s family confirmed that she had attempted to monitor the baby for the past nine days, during which she had left him through the daughter of a neighbor. The prosecution questioned the aforementioned girl (who is 14 years old), but denied the accusation of the defendant and her family, confirming that she was not asked to search the baby.
The Public Ministry notified the incident to the “Child Rescue” line of the National Council for Children and Maternity to study and evaluate the marital status of the deceased infant’s brother. The specialist in charge of the study recommended that he be handed over to his mother’s family. The Prosecutor’s Office decided that and the investigations are being completed.
The bed where the boy’s body was found.
