Not a trap, but it shakenbabysyndroom it took barely three months old son of Samantha and Traore life. That news got to the parents of Amir, to their great surprise last week of the Limburg public prosecutor. Their friend, Dominique B. (29), who admitted to the police that the child had shaken, was at that time already in the cell. “On november 8, was made Amir at Dominique at home,” says mum Samantha. “Because my husband and I both in shift work, we had the afternoon for an hour for a babysitter for our son.”
‘Unwell’Friend B., herself a mom of two children and turns up very pregnant at that time, offered itself. “We have always been friends, and my older son Faïz calls her always aunt”, sigh, Samantha. “Suddenly we got that afternoon the phone that something had happened with Amir. Our son had fallen because Dominique himself unwell, was become at the top of the stairs. She wanted a bag made of the ground, but lost her balance. Amir was out of her arms, slid, down the stairs.” The emergency services brought the child to the Genk hospital. From there it was to the UZ Leuven transferred, but ten days after the alleged fall, the baby died. When B. last week by the court was confronted with the autopsy from which it became clear that the child does not fell, but heavily shuffled, which was well-known in the meantime gave birth to woman.
No baby“I am still in shock that Dominique us all the time and lied to,” says Samantha. “I will only believe if they the me says.” The detectives told B. that the child is so hard, cried that her patience lost and ‘hard going’. “Amir was not a difficult baby,” says Samantha. “Maybe he had a difficult day, but a crying baby was certainly not. Why did they not immediately open card is played? She was such a good friend. Even after the loss of Amir we kept in touch. We tried our loss and are even together still go to dinner last month in Hasselt. Now everything is from, in the middle of our grieving process and we have a heavy lawsuit to wait.”
According to the husband of B., had his wife never intended to Amir pain to do. “She was self turns up very pregnant and she felt not so well,” he says. “Yet they still committed to baby-sitting. She has certainly not sought after. I hope that they soon can go home and mentally accompanied. Our two kids do ask many questions and have their mommy.”