FILICIDE: France: Fabienne Kabou found child incompatible with her love life
Pictured on CCTV the horrifying moment French mother calmly pushes her baby girl to drown in the sea because she claimed child was 'incompatible' with her love life
- Fabienne Kabou, 36, has admitted to police she wanted to kill the child
- In police interview she said baby was 'incompatible' with her and boyfriend
- Checked into hotel in Berck sur Mer with baby Adelaide on November 19
- The next day Adelaide was found dead, strapped in pram, in the water
- Demonstrators have taken to streets calling for crackdown on child cruelty
By
TIM FINAN
PUBLISHED: 17:11 GMT, 1 December 2013 | UPDATED: 18:25 GMT, 1 December 2013
Horrific: A CCTV image has been released showing a woman pushing a pram in Berck sur Mer on November 19
A mother faces life imprisonment after confessing she drowned her 15-month-old daughter in the English Channel because the child was 'incompatible' with her love life.
CCTV footage has emerged of Fabienne Kabou, 36, from Senegal, pushing little Adelaide to the coast of Berck sur Mer on November 19.
The next day, Adelaide was found dead, strapped in a pushchair submerged in the water, by a fisherman.
After ten days of searching nationwide, police used DNA from the pram to trace Ms Kabou to the home she shares with a 63-year-old man in Paris, where she was arrested.
Ms Kabou, a philosophy student, told police she took the drastic move after deciding motherhood was 'incompatible' with her love life with Adelaide's father.
The case has sparked outrage as hundreds took to the streets outside the court and on the coast in a White March - a French style of demonstrating against child cruelty.
Ms Kabou had told her boyfriend, a sculptor, that she had handed over the little girl to her grandmother who had agreed to look after her in Senegal, police claim.
On Saturday, Kabou was taken under Police guard to Boulogne sur Mer and questioned for four hours by an examining judge in a closed court session.
The judge placed her under investigation for murder. She was remanded in custody pending her trial.
Her lawyer Fabienne Roy-Nansion who was present during the interrogation said that her client had made a full confession.
In an interview with Le Parisien newspaper the father of Adelaïde said that Fabienne Kabou had been 'a magnificent' mother to her child.
Neighbours of the couple said they were at a loss to understand how the mother of the Adelaïde could have wanted to be rid of her.