The child who died was in a mart shopping bag… “I didn’t know what to do.”
“I carried my child in a shopping bag at a large supermarket and then threw it away like trash.”
According to the Guardian on the 25th (local time), the British court said this during a hearing regarding Constance Martin (36), a former British aristocrat, who is accused of abandoning her newborn daughter. The court cited some of the charges against Martin and her husband, Mark Gordon, 49, who were indicted last year on charges including manslaughter, child abuse and concealing a birth.
Tom Little, the prosecutor in charge of the case, said, “If the two defendants had not acted in a reckless, selfish, callous, cruel, and grossly negligent manner, the child would have been alive.” He added, “A couple who were already caring for four children took a new child.” “It is presumed that he ran away to avoid going,” he said.
The origin of the incident dates back to January 5th of last year. Police found the couple’s car on fire on a highway near Manchester, England. At this time, the police secured the placenta wrapped in a towel and Martin’s passport from the vehicle and began a large-scale investigation.
The couple was arrested a month later, on February 27, in Brighton, southern England. The court heard the couple had been sleeping homeless in the South Downs National Park for several weeks. Investigating authorities found the child’s body two days later after a search.
Mother Martin said the child had already died two months before the body was discovered.
He said, “I fell asleep holding the child, but when I woke up, the child did not move. “She tried to do CPR, but it didn’t work,” she said. “She wanted to bury her child, but she didn’t know what to do, so she carried the body.”
Martin was born into an English noble family. Martin’s grandmother was the goddaughter (a woman who was promised guardianship) of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyan, the mother of Queen Elizabeth II.
Critzel House, the mansion where Martin spent his childhood, is a historic location also known as the setting for the movie Emma.
Meanwhile, Gordon, the father of the deceased child, was found guilty of kidnapping and sexual assault in Florida in 1990 and served time in prison until 2010.
Source: Donga
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