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French woman says killing baby like ‘going shopping’

– ‘Anaesthetised’ –

Kabou grew up in Senegal in a well-off Catholic family before moving to Paris to study philosophy and architecture where she fell in love with a sculptor 30 years her senior, Michel Lafon.

Described by her lawyer as highly intelligent, she told the court she had no other explanation for her acts but “witchcraft”.

Kabou said she carried out the murder “perfectly mechanically, as if a part of me was anaesthetised” and returned home the next day “with the attitude of someone who has just gone shopping”.

“I didn’t want to kill this child but it was at my hands that she died,” said Kabou.

Prosecutor Luc Fremiot interrogated her over the fact that she never registered Adelaide’s birth, and none of her family knew about the existence of the child.

Kabou has said Lafon never wanted the child and questioned whether he was even the father.

“If I never wanted Ada, I wouldn’t have carried her for nine months, I wouldn’t have raised her for 15 months, I wouldn’t have loved her,” Kabou said, sobbing.

On Monday, the accused said she had spent some 40,000 euros (Sh4.5mn) consulting various “witchdoctors and healers” before carrying out the murder, and that she had suffered hallucinations.

However, Jean-Christophe Boyer, a lawyer for a children’s group that is a civil party to the case, has accused Kabou of using witchcraft and her culture as a defence strategy.

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A court psychiatrist, Paul Bensussan, said her act was possibly triggered by a deep depression related to having the child.

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