![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Meroua grabbed the scissors from the make-up basket, cut the umbilical cord and wrapped the baby in her dress. From the room next door, her mother became impatient and yelled at her to get out, as she had to do her ablutions before praying. Crouching in the shower, she bit her hand to keep from screaming. At the end of July 2019, she locked herself in the bathroom of the family apartment. Meroua wore large tunics to hide her growing belly from her parents and three little sisters. She didn't get her period the following month. There was a second time, maybe a third, it's not quite clear. One afternoon in October 2018, she slept with a man 11 years older than her. She was in her final year at a vocational high school in Seine-Saint-Denis, a poor suburban area north and east of Paris. The trial, which took place near Paris, at the end of June, revealed the social, cultural and religious taboos that can tear families apart. Long ReadA young woman of Algerian origin was accused of killing her baby during childbirth. The young mother and the child of 'shame' By Pascale Robert-Diard Published on July 15, 2023, at 10:00 pm (Paris) ![]()
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