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Bordeaux Trial Opens for Mother Accused of Suffocating 3-Month-Old Twins

Jurors will weigh whether postpartum depression altered her intent in deaths attributed to doudou smothering.

Overview

  • Jennifer B., 37, appears before the Gironde assize court on charges of murdering children under 15, an offense punishable by life imprisonment.
  • She acknowledges pressing a soft toy over each infant’s face for about a minute but denies intending to kill them.
  • Autopsies concluded the babies died of asphyxia caused by the doudou combined with complete occlusion of the nose and mouth by a hand.
  • Case files cite a recent mother–child psychiatric hospitalization for postpartum depression, ongoing treatment, and phone evidence of a distress text and searches about adoption and sudden infant death.
  • Neighbors say she seemed calm as they attempted resuscitation; one twin was declared dead at home, the other died later in hospital, and the father, now divorcing, opposes both acquittal and a life sentence.