Two girls spend days with dead mother in France saying, ‘Mommy is sleeping’

By Dayo Badmus,

Two young sisters aged 5 and 7 spent several days in an apartment with the body of their mother who had died
suddenly in northwestern France.

According to the Regional prosecutor on Saturday, the girls were heard telling police officers who came to their apartment in the city of Le Mans on Wednesday to
“Be quiet, Mommy is sleeping,”

This happened after being alerted by the girls’ school of their prolonged absence, the prosecutor’s office said.

The officers insisted on coming in and discovered the body of the mother, who was born in 1990 in Ivory Coast and who had died of natural causes, according to a subsequent autopsy.

The girls were taken to a hospital and were then placed in foster care and were being given psychological counselling.

It was not yet clear how long they had spent inside the apartment with their dead mother.

“We have ruled out a criminal hypothesis,” Mans prosecutor Delphine Dewailly told AFP.

“We are now going to wait a few days and then try to get witness testimony from the little girls.”

(AFP)