French creche worker jailed for 25 years over drain-cleaner killing of baby
Myriam Jaouen, 30, admitted at the court in Lyon to making the infant drink the toxic fluid at the nursery where she worked in 2022

A French woman on Thursday was sentenced to 25 years in prison for killing a baby by making the infant ingest drain-cleaning fluid at the day care centre where she worked.
Prosecutors at the court in the southeastern city of Lyon had asked for 30 years in prison, including 20 without possibility of parole, for Myriam Jaouen, now aged 30, over the death of baby Lisa in 2022.
Lisa died just one week before her first birthday.
There is an “unfathomable” element to the killing, said prosecutor Baptiste Godreau as he outlined sentencing demands earlier on Thursday, adding that Jaouen had acted “perfectly conscious” of what she was doing.
He said that the “heavy” sentencing demand was aimed at “punishing the extreme seriousness of this act, for having taken the life of a defenceless child in a cowardly fashion, to protect society in a lasting way and to protect the interests of the family”.
The accused admitted while in police custody that she had given Lisa the corrosive liquid while insisting that she had not intended to kill the child.
She presented several versions of the facts before admitting during the trial that she had held the baby’s head and poured the product directly into her mouth.